Could we get Southern Altai support?

[Matthew-Tate-Scarbrough]

I love the polyglossia package (obviously) and I have a niche usage for it; I need to be able to easily typeset an obscure Turkic language I am trying to learn. I don't expect anyone who actually is working on it to go through all that trouble, but I was hoping I could write some basic hyphenation files, etc. and do a pull request in the future.

I am going to try and write my own package *.ldf (gloss-alt.ldf), etc., regardless, but I would like to ask if I could be given some general pointers in how to do it apropriately, smoothly. I am looking, now, and the Russian and English packages as a guideline. I don't intend on writing a babel package if I don't have to. I am typesetting a New Testament, so I should be able to produce a fairly thorough hyphenation package, etc. within a year or so.

[jspitz]

As to hyphenation I suggest you wait until @reutenauer is back; he can definitely give you some guide.

With regard to the gloss file, I suggest you take one that is most closely to Southern Altai as a model and begin to integrate things (captions etc.) there. Since Altai uses multiple scripts, maybe gloss-serbian.ldf is a good model, too. As I understand, it would make sense to set up a gloss-altai.ldf with variants, even if you intend to implement only variant=southernfor now.

[Matthew-Tate-Scarbrough]

Since Altai uses multiple scripts, maybe gloss-serbian.ldf is a good model, too.

That is probably a good suggestion. I assume you read the Wikipedia page (which is the best English source on anything on the language,) so I shan't say more than is necessary, but they really only have used two scripts Latin and Cyrillic, but of course custom variants. I shall get on that, thank you.

[Matthew-Tate-Scarbrough]

I have created a base file that I am ready to test, how would I go about doing that? (it is still along way away from being ready for a commit.)

Edit: NVM, lol, I forgot that putting it in ~/texmf was a thing, lol