reutenauer/polyglossia — Issue #12: Improve french support
Author: Brndan
Created: 2012-02-04 16:08:11+00:00
State: open

The french support in polyglossia is quite limited.

I suggest to add some commands which will help to get back some of the functionnality one could find using the `babel` package:

>\def\ier{\textsuperscript{er}}
>\def\iers{\textsuperscript{ers}}
>\def\iere{\textsuperscript{ère}}
>\def\ieres{\textsuperscript{ères}}
>\def\ieme{\textsuperscript{e}}
>\def\iemes{\textsuperscript{es}}
>\def\nd{\textsuperscript{nd}}
>\def\nds{\textsuperscript{nds}}
>\def\nde{\textsuperscript{nde}}
>\def\ndes{\textsuperscript{ndes}}
>\def\no{\textsuperscript{o}}
>\def\nos{\textsuperscript{os}}

>\def\mme{M\textsuperscript{me}\space}
>\def\mmes{M\textsuperscript{mes}\space}
>\def\mr{M.\space}
>\def\mrs{MM.\space}

I also add the following suggestion in order to produce produce footnotes “à la française” (often mandatory for humanities):

>\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
> \noindent\makebox[1em][r]{\@thefnmark.\space}#1}

This code must be added to the file `gloss-french.ldf`.