Sorry for noise as https://github.com/reutenauer/polyglossia/pull/178
has been merged upstream. The question now is when will this make its way to CTAN or TeXLive. As far as I can tell CTAN has 1.42.4 and the above was merged into 1.42.5. (this is secondary topic to this thread, though) Best, Jean-François Le 3 déc. 2017 à 15:34, jfbu <j...@free.fr> a écrit : > > Hi, > > regarding the character class issue > > (which isn't directly the one > I had reported at http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2017-March/027056.html > and again at top of this re-newed thread) > > github user eg9 already did a report upstream > > https://github.com/reutenauer/polyglossia/issues/145 > > as far as I can tell, the issue remains unresolved. > > Best, > > Jean-François > > Le 3 déc. 2017 à 12:21, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> I do not know the exact revision of the change. The code which I sent tests >> the features, not the revision number. >> >> Zdeněk Wagner >> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml >> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz >> >> 2017-12-03 12:18 GMT+01:00 jfbu <j...@free.fr>: >> >> Only to point out frenchb.ldf (babel-french) does indeed >> >> \ifdim\the\XeTeXversion\XeTeXrevision pt<0.99994pt >> \FB@nonchar=255 \relax >> \else >> \FB@nonchar=4095 \relax >> \fi >> >> whereas I see no similar thing in gloss-french.ldf >> >> There seems to be two problems now, whereas >> I only had one initially >> >> - my mwe does not compile with xetex 0.99992 >> >> - possibly, polyglossia-french has an issue with >> xetex 0.99994 and later >> >> Jean-François >> >> Le 3 déc. 2017 à 11:58, jfbu <j...@free.fr> a écrit : >> >>> Thanks Zdeněk! >>> >>> Should I thus conclude from this that polyglossia + French is currently >>> broken ? >>> indeed the file gloss-french.ldf uses hardcoded 255 at various locations. >>> >>> I am a bit lost though because my test mwe >>> >>> \catcode`@ 11 >>> \XeTeXinterchartokenstate=1 >>> \newXeTeXintercharclass\french@punctthin >>> \XeTeXcharclass `\; \french@punctthin >>> \XeTeXinterchartoks 255 \french@punctthin = {\nobreak\thinspace}% >>> \catcode`;\active >>> \def;{\discretionary{\char`\;}{}{\char`\;}} >>> a;b >>> \bye >>> >>> compiles fine with current XeTeX, but not with TL2015 XeTeX. >>> >>> (the @ thing is only to stay close to control sequence names from >>> gloss-french.ldf) >>> >>> To clarify, the \def;{\discretionary{\char`\;}{}{\char`\;}} is analogous to >>> the kind of things Sphinx does in verbatim listings to allow linebreaks, >>> but isn't the exact thing. >>> >>> Anyway, it does not originate from polyglossia nor >>> gloss-french.ldf but is a Sphinx add-on inside code listings. >>> >>> If the problem can be solved by a patch at macro level, that would >>> be best, because it would allow the CPython internationalization >>> team to build their PDF docs without worrying about which XeTeX >>> they use, I notice some of their team uses Debian 2013. >>> >>> Best >>> >>> Jean-François >>> >>> Le 3 déc. 2017 à 11:01, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> a écrit : >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> please, notice that the number of character classes was increased from 256 >>>> to 4096, so 255 no longer works as a boundary but 4095 must be used. I use >>>> the following code that I took from some other package: >>>> >>>> \edef\CSat{\the\catcode`\@} % in order to work in plain XeTeX >>>> \catcode`\@=11 >>>> \ifdefined\e@alloc@intercharclass@top >>>> \chardef\CSboundary=\e@alloc@intercharclass@top >>>> \else >>>> \ifdefined\XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping >>>> \chardef\CSboundary=4095 % >>>> \def\newXeTeXintercharclass{% >>>> \e@alloc\XeTeXcharclass\chardef >>>> \xe@alloc@intercharclass\m@ne\@ucharclass@boundary} >>>> \else >>>> \chardef\CSboundary=255 >>>> \fi >>>> \fi >>>> \catcode`\@=\CSat >>>> >>>> Afterwards I use \CSboundary instead of a fixed number. It thus works both >>>> with the old and new XeTeX. >>>> >>>> >>>> Zdeněk Wagner >>>> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml >>>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz >>>> >>>> 2017-12-03 10:19 GMT+01:00 jfbu <j...@free.fr>: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I need some help to identify which XeTeX release fixed >>>> that problem, the mwe is >>>> >>>> \catcode`@ 11 >>>> \XeTeXinterchartokenstate=1 >>>> \newXeTeXintercharclass\french@punctthin >>>> \XeTeXcharclass `\; \french@punctthin >>>> \XeTeXinterchartoks 255 \french@punctthin = {\nobreak\thinspace}% >>>> \catcode`;\active >>>> \def;{\discretionary{\char`\;}{}{\char`\;}} >>>> a;b >>>> \bye >>>> >>>> In real life it appeared in a Polyglossia+French context >>>> with the semi-colon make active to insert a \discretionary >>>> similar to the above. There is no issue in lualatex. >>>> >>>> It is currently seen at Python upstream (CPython) when >>>> they try to build French docs (via Sphinx) >>>> >>>> https://bugs.python.org/issue31589 >>>> >>>> and it would be nice to pinpoint which XeTeX release >>>> precisely is ok. I know 0.99992 is bad and 0.99996 is good, >>>> but can't easily bisect. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Jean-François >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------- >>>> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >>>> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >>>> >>> >> >> >
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