From ab55684bc15ef367d92fd916797d154199c57c85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 10:33:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Use polyglossia with xelatex in beamer. Closes #85.

---
 default.beamer | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/default.beamer b/default.beamer
index 045f8c5db5ae..faef00acc9e1 100644
--- a/default.beamer
+++ b/default.beamer
@@ -117,7 +117,12 @@ $if(verbatim-in-note)$
 \VerbatimFootnotes % allows verbatim text in footnotes
 $endif$
 $if(lang)$
-\usepackage[$lang$]{babel}
+\ifxetex
+  \usepackage{polyglossia}
+  \setmainlanguage{$mainlang$}
+\else
+  \usepackage[shorthands=off,$lang$]{babel}
+\fi
 $endif$
 $for(header-includes)$
 $header-includes$