Polish language support.

[georgthegreat]

Hi.

Some time ago I posted an issue devoted to polish language support on sourceforge tracker.
Translator have finished his work today.

Here is the answers to the 9 questions:

1. What kind of dash do you use in number ranges like "35-50"
   n-dash: 35–50
2. What kind of dash do you use in date ranges like "1st January-3rd February 2009"?
   n-dash with spaces: 1 sycznia 2013 roku – 23 września 2015 roku
3. In lists and enumerations, do you add a comma in addition to connectors like "and":
   Comma must NOT be present before "i" (literally "and"), but must BE present before "oraz" (the same meaning)
4. How do you format short ordinals? Are ordinals gender/number sensitive?
   As I understood, modern practice is to write just numbers: 1 2 3 (without any additions)
   This format is gender insensitive
5. What's the gender of the word "edition":
   Neuter gender. The word is "wydanie"
6. What's the gender of the word "series" (of a journal)?
   Feminine gender. The word is "serja"
7. What's the long date format?
   This matches the russian date format: 31 sycznia 2013 roku (January 31th 2013) or styczeń 2013 (January 2013).
8. What's the short date format?
   This matches the russian date format: 31.01.2013
9. After which punctuation marks do you capitalize a word?
   ". ! ?" (English = package default)

I don't understand how to attach custom file to the issue.

[georgthegreat]

Here is the link to the utf-8 with BOM bibliography strings file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qr6005g9mn6huoz/polish.lbx

[aboruvka]

@georgthegreat Thanks. You can find the revised module in the referenced commit. The short strings for and editorsco and byeditortrco contained Cyrillic characters. I've changed these to Latin, so they likely need some checking over. I also converted the file to Ascii and incorporated biblatex punctuation commands. If the result is now too tedious for the translator to read, you could compile example number 03 from the documentation for him to review.

For answer 3, the module only contains the string "i". It is possible to create a "smart and" that uses different strings, but we would need to know conditions for use of "i" versus the alternative "oraz".

We acknowledge all contributors in the biblatex manual, so I'll add yours. Is there a name we can use to credit the translator as well?

[georgthegreat]

I've rechecked them.
I'm waiting for the confirmation from translator, but it seems that everything is fine.

Will this file be added to biblatex repo? When I can pull to get it?

[aboruvka]

The file is on the dev branch here. @plk Could you update the dev files at SF?

[plk]

Done - the 2.6 dev version now has the latest changes. Note that if you are using biber, you'll need the 1.6 dev version.

[georgthegreat]

Hi!
I've pulled the latest dev version from github (from dev branch).
Here is the error I've got:

Package biblatex Warning: Language 'polish' not supported.
(biblatex) Using fallback language 'russian' on input line 15.

! LaTeX Error: Command \k unavailable in encoding OT1.

I'm using T2A everywhere in my project. Seems that biblatex traits font encoding incorrectly (I'm not sure who is switching it actually).

Also, I have to remove unicode byte order park from polish.lbx since latex doesn't support it.

[aboruvka]

@georgthegreat Can you post an example? Oh, and you should use the dev version available at SF - to use the files from github you need to run the build script.

[georgthegreat]

Can you pull dev version from here:
https://github.com/georgthegreat/dancebooks-bibtex
Just clone it and run make from the repo root.

Or here is the link to the final file
https://github.com/georgthegreat/dancebooks-bibtex/blob/dev/bib/polish.bib

[aboruvka]

@georgthegreat I meant a full example here in the comments. The first error seems to imply that the files you pulled didn't build properly. The second error is likely associated with the entry aksin from biblatex-examples.bib, which uses \k. To handle that just add \usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc} to your preamble.

[georgthegreat]

Thanks! This helped.

[aboruvka]

@georgthegreat I still need to update the manual. Is there a name we can use to credit your translator?

[georgthegreat]

I've asked the translator for permission. I'le answer as soon as she answers me.

[georgthegreat]

Yes, you can use her name: Anastasia Kandulina

[aboruvka]

Great. Thanks to you and Anastasia.