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The multilingual framework to localize LaTeX, LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX
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Babel syriac support #10

Closed lyndondrake closed 4 years ago

lyndondrake commented 6 years ago

Brief outline of the bug

I'd like to help provide syriac (an Aramaic dialect with a variety of scripts, all well-supported in Unicode) support Babel.

Minimal example showing the bug

No minimal example as support doesn't exist yet.

jbezos commented 6 years ago

Thank you very much. You are most welcome. There are two ways: • Create an ldf file with the help of this page: http://www.texnia.com/incubator.html. You can then distribute it if you want. • Create an ini file taking any babel-xx.ini as a model (eg, the files undel locale/ar). Perhaps this method is the simplest. The identification section is something like (I presume, it's based on the Unicode CLDR):

[identification] charset = utf8 version = 1.0 date = 2018-00-00 name.english = Classical Syriac name.babel.0 = classicalsyriac tag.bcp47 = syc tag.opentype = SYR script.name = Syriac script.tag.bcp47 = Syrc script.tag.opentype = syrc level = 0 encodings = derivate = no

Please, don't hesitate to ask me for help.

jbezos commented 6 years ago

Oops. I took part of the identification from Classical Syriac. But as a starting point it's still valid.

lyndondrake commented 6 years ago

That's great. Do I put this in the directory with the other ini files? In my case:

/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/locale/he

I've had a read of some of the other files in there, e.g. Hebrew, and it doesn't look impossible.

jbezos commented 6 years ago

Sent it to me for the last touches and to distribute it as part of babel. In the meanwhile, you can put it in the document working directory. Use the form on http://www.texnia.com/contact.html to send me your e-mail, and I'll contact you.