=========================================================== = = THIS PACKAGE IS IN NEED OF A MAINTAINER = = SEE https://github.com/Pomax/ucharclasses/issues/23 = = =========================================================== ucharclasses package for XeLaTex -------------------------------------- Michiel Kamermans, v2.6, October 2022 The brief --------- Sometimes you don't want to have to bother with font switching just because you're using languages that are distinct enough to use different unicode blocks, but aren't covered by the polyglossia package. Where normal word processing packages such as Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer handle this for you, LATEX (because it needs you to tell it what to do) has no default behaviour for this, and so we arrive at a need for a package that does this for us. You probably already discovered that regular LATEX has no understanding of unicode, and ended up going for Xe(La)TeX as your TeX compiler of choice, which means you now have two excellent resources available: fontspec, and ucharclasses. The first of these lets you pick fonts based on what your system calls them, without needing to do anything special such as turning them into metafonts. This is convenient, user friendly, and the way of the future (at least, it should be). The second lets you define what should happen when your text changes from a character in one unicode block, to a character in another. This is also convenient, and paired with fontspec it offers automatic font switching in the same way that normal Office applications perform, with one big difference: you stay in control. If at some point you need the switch rule to do something different, you will be out of luck using an Office application. In Xe(La)TeX, you stay on top of things and still get to say exactly what happens, and when. So what is it? -------------- This package sets up XeTeX character classes based on which unicode block a character is found in. It then allows transition rules to be defined when entering or leaving particular unicode blocks, the code of which gets inserted automatically when a transition from a character from one unicode block to a character from another unicode block is encountered by XeTeX Unicode Compatibility --------------------- Current compatibility is Unicode 15.0 Changelog --------- v2.6: Unicode 15 support v2.5: Unicode 14 support v2.4: Unicode 11, 12, and 13 support v2.3: Unicode 10 support v2.2: Unicode 8.0 and LaTeX2e support v2.1: Uplift for the updates introduced in XeTeX 0.99994 v2.0: Rewritten to Vastly improve performance + Unicode 6.0 v1.0: Unicode block switching using XeTeX intercharclasses. Contributors ------------ v2.5-2.6: Werner Lemberg v2.4: Werner Lemberg, Shreeshrii v2.1-2.3: Qing Lee, Werner Lemberg v2.0: Enrico Gregorio v1.0: Mike "Pomax" Kamermans License? -------- Public Domain https://www.ctan.org/license/pd Repository? ----------- https://github.com/Pomax/ucharclasses