Problem with polyglossia package

Pedro Carneiro

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Sep 16, 2011, 8:43:00 AM9/16/11

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Hi all,

When I compile this (with fully updated MikTeX 2.9 and TeX Live 2011)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\begin{document}
abc
\end{document}

I get

! Undefined control sequence.
l.402 \define@boolkey
{polyglossia}[xpg@]{localmarks}[false]{%

Does anyone get the same thing?

Any help would be appreciated.

Pedro Carneiro

Dirk Tuemmler

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Sep 16, 2011, 10:00:28 AM9/16/11

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The updated fontspec (automatically called by polyglossia) seems to be
the culprit.
cf https://github.com/fc7/polyglossia/issues/27

Reverting to the last fontspec solves the issue.

Regards

Robin Fairbairns

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Sep 16, 2011, 10:37:19 AM9/16/11

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Dirk Tuemmler <eluci...@gmail.com> writes:

were you relying on fontspec to load xkeyval for you?

i.e., does \usepackage{xkeyval}, before loading polyglossia, solve the
problem?

(fontspec now uses l3keys rather than xkeyval.)
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
my address is @cl.cam.ac.uk, regardless of the header. sorry about that.

Pedro Carneiro

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Sep 16, 2011, 10:38:54 AM9/16/11

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Thank you.

That solved my problem.

Pedro Carneiro

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Sep 16, 2011, 11:04:34 AM9/16/11

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Em 16-09-2011 15:37, Robin Fairbairns escreveu:
> Dirk Tuemmler<eluci...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The updated fontspec (automatically called by polyglossia) seems to be
>> the culprit.
>> cf https://github.com/fc7/polyglossia/issues/27
>>
>> Reverting to the last fontspec solves the issue.
>
> were you relying on fontspec to load xkeyval for you?

Yes, I was.

> i.e., does \usepackage{xkeyval}, before loading polyglossia, solve the
> problem?
>
> (fontspec now uses l3keys rather than xkeyval.)

Yes, that solved the problem in a better way.

Once again, thanks for solving my problems. I also learned something.

Pedro Carneiro

Heiko Oberdiek

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Sep 16, 2011, 2:23:48 PM9/16/11

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Then it is a bug in polyglossia.
It needs \RequirePackage{xkeyval}.

--
Heiko Oberdiek

Robin Fairbairns

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Sep 16, 2011, 7:23:25 PM9/16/11

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is polyglossia maintained, does anyone know? we have a name for a
maintainer, but i don't think he answers mails from ctan.

Heiko Oberdiek

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Sep 17, 2011, 12:23:57 PM9/17/11

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Robin Fairbairns <rf...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Heiko Oberdiek <heiko.o...@googlemail.com> writes:
>
> > Pedro Carneiro <parca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Em 16-09-2011 15:37, Robin Fairbairns escreveu:
> >> > i.e., does \usepackage{xkeyval}, before loading polyglossia, solve the
> >> > problem?
> >> >
> >> > (fontspec now uses l3keys rather than xkeyval.)
> >>
> >> Yes, that solved the problem in a better way.
> >>
> >> Once again, thanks for solving my problems. I also learned something.
> >
> > Then it is a bug in polyglossia.
> > It needs \RequirePackage{xkeyval}.
>
> is polyglossia maintained, does anyone know? we have a name for a
> maintainer, but i don't think he answers mails from ctan.

I have send the fix suggestion to the address that worked last year.

--
Heiko Oberdiek