On 06/06/2010 02:42 PM, enrico.grego...@univr.it wrote:
On 06/06/2010 12:03 AM, enrico.grego...@univr.it wrote:[...] I'm on TL2009 and the indentfirst package doesn't work at all. How can I get indentation on first paragraphs in Spanish?[...]Your sample works fine, but I'm afraid I can't provide a sample that shows the problem, since the issue appears in book that I typeset with XeLaTeX and babel and I switched now to polyglossia and I don't know why this happens.Are you using different languages? If so, this may be the problem.
No, Spanish was the main language in both documents, I don't see how this might be the problem.
After comparing the gloss-spanish.ldf with gloss-french.ldf and gloss-greek.ldf, a workaround for this would be: \makeatletter \def\blockext...@spanish{\frenchspacing\french@indent} \makeatother BTW, François, if you were so kind, I think this should be the default for Spanish as it is for French or Greek. Babel has also indentfirst as default for Spanish as main language.AFAIK, Spanish babel has an option system that can enable also the "noindentfirst" behavior, which is logically better, but typographic rules often don't follow logic. :)
Indenting first paragraphs is more a conventional practice than a logical rule.
The default rule in Spanish is indenting first paragraphs (probably influenced from France, such as it happens in Greece) and I guess that this should be the default value in polyglossia (as a general matter).
Because of that I think that polyglossia should reflect the same values as the ones from babel for Spanish.
If you say in your document
\makeatletter
\gappto\blockext...@spanish{\french@indent}
\gappto\noext...@spanish{\nofrench@indent}
\makeatother
all should go as requested. If you need "globally" the "indentfirst" behavior,
which is reasonable, the indentfirst package should be loaded before
polyglossia.
Indeed, indentfirst.sty says
Thanks for your explanation. Now I get it.What happened was the following: babel was charged before indentfirst, but it made no difference, since babel default for Spanish is indentfirst. When I replaced babel for polyglossia, indentfirst being loaded latter, first paragraphs weren't indented.
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