TexStudio - polyglossia - xelatex : how to create symbols

Question

I'm using TexStudio to write my thesis and I just changed to polyglossia and xelatex because I'm need to write down words in a lot of different languages. Since I do this however, a lot of commands from TexStudio don't work anymore, e.g. \textless, all the cyrillic caracters like \CYRR, etc.. Can you tell me what's the problem and how I can change it ?

My introduction lines :

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,final]{book}

\usepackage{amsmath}    
\usepackage{amsfonts}    
\usepackage{amssymb}    
\usepackage{makeidx}    
\usepackage{graphicx}    
\usepackage{fontspec}    
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}    
\usepackage{polyglossia}    
\setmainlanguage{french}   
\setotherlanguages{english,german,latin,italian,spanish,russian,greek}    
\newcommand{\og}{\guillemotleft~}    
\newcommand{\fg}{~\guillemotright}    
\usepackage{multicol}    
\setlength{\columnsep}{1.5cm}    
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.2pt}     
\usepackage[left=2.00cm, right=2.00cm, top=2.20cm, bottom=2.20cm]{geometry}    
\newcommand{\myparagraph}[1]{\paragraph{#1}\mbox{}\\}  

\begin{document}    
\CYRR    
\end{document}

File log : ! Undefined control sequence. \CYRR

Related: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30829/how-to-insert-greek-with-ascii-keyboard-and-xetex-polyglossia?rq=1. — cfr, Aug 01 '15 at 23:34
@barbarabeeton The code point is preserved. Marking Russian text with \foreignlanguage or other means is for getting correct hyphenation. — egreg, Aug 02 '15 at 08:09
@egreg -- okay, got it. i was reading the suggestion in two separate parts; the fact that the unicode value is the necessary bit slipped right over my head. — barbara beeton, Aug 02 '15 at 08:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 02 '15 at 08:25

You don't need \CYRR or \textless, nor defining \og and \fg:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,final]{book}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}

\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\setmainlanguage{french}
\setotherlanguages{english,german,latin,italian,spanish,russian,greek}

\newrobustcmd{\RU}[1]{\foreignlanguage{russian}{#1}}

\begin{document}

Texte en « français ».

Texte en «français».

Une «Р» en l'alphabet cyrillique! L'espace entre
le mot e le point d'exclamation est correct.

Un mot en russe \RU{Русский}: et voilà.

\begin{english}
There is no need to use \verb|\textless|, because
typing \texttt{<} gives <.
\end{english}

\end{document}

Single Cyrillic characters are not a problem, but for words or phrases that you may want the hyphenation to be correct, there are the usual methods: \foreignlanguage or the environments otherlanguage and otherlanguage*. Polyglossia adds also environments based on the language name. However, you might want the \RU markup also for single letters, in order to see what they are.

You see that I took the picture with the Cyrillic ER selected; indeed, I copied it an pasted in the main window of UnicodeChecker (great free software for Mac OS X), resulting in

TexStudio - polyglossia - xelatex : how to create symbols

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