(missing space in) "today" formatting in Polish using polyglossia

Question

Just discovered TeX few days ago :)

Experimenting a lot now. I am trying to make a template for my thesis (which is going to use quotations and bibliography in a good few languages and some serious math too). XeLaTeX seems to be giving me least problems now (but it was tough at the beginning).

Anyways, I am a bit confused about this missing space between month name and the year in the date for the Polish version of it...

Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug?

%!TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass{minimal}

\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\greekfont[Script=Greek, Scale=MatchUppercase, Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{Linux Libertine O}
\usepackage{polyglossia}                                
\setdefaultlanguage[variant=british]{english}
\setotherlanguages{latin,greek,russian,polish,german}

\begin{document}

greek (\textgreek[variant=ancient]{ελληνικά \today}),
russian (\textrussian{русский \today}),
polish (\textpolish{polski \today}),
german (\textgerman{Deutsch \today}),
latin (\textlatin{Latina \today}),

\end{document}

Welcome to TeX.sx! Great Minimal Working Example, thanks for working that out! One detail (that probably isn’t relevant here): Even for MWEs, don’t use minimal; see Why not use the minimal class. — doncherry, Apr 02 '13 at 01:20

egreg · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-02T08:45:45.583

It's definitely a bug in the file gloss-polish.ldf, where the definition of \datepolish is

\def\datepolish{%
  \def\today{\number\day\space\ifcase\month\or
      stycznia\or lutego\or marca\or kwietnia\or maja\or czerwca\or
      lipca\or sierpnia\or września\or października\or
      listopada\or grudnia\fi
      \number\year}%
  }

and there's a missing space, because the space after \fi is ignored by rule.

You can correct it, waiting for an official fix, by adding to your document, after having called the language (with \setmainlanguage{polish} or \setotherlanguage{...,polish,...}),

\def\datepolish{%
  \def\today{\number\day\space\ifcase\month\or
      stycznia\or lutego\or marca\or kwietnia\or maja\or czerwca\or
      lipca\or sierpnia\or września\or października\or
      listopada\or grudnia\fi\space
      \number\year}%
  }

Complete example:

%!TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\newfontfamily\greekfont[Script=Greek, Scale=MatchUppercase, Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{Linux Libertine O}
\usepackage{polyglossia}                                
\setdefaultlanguage[variant=british]{english}
\setotherlanguages{latin,greek,russian,polish,german}

\def\datepolish{%
  \def\today{\number\day\space\ifcase\month\or
      stycznia\or lutego\or marca\or kwietnia\or maja\or czerwca\or
      lipca\or sierpnia\or września\or października\or
      listopada\or grudnia\fi\space
      \number\year}%
  }

\begin{document}

Greek (\textgreek[variant=ancient]{ελληνικά \today})

Russian (\textrussian{русский \today})

Polish (\textpolish{polski \today})

German (\textgerman{Deutsch \today})

Latin (\textlatin{Latina \today})

\end{document}

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I've opened a issue on the GitHub repository of Polyglossia

(missing space in) "today" formatting in Polish using polyglossia

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