[TxMt] Re: Suggestion for the Latex Bundle

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Karl Meyer wrote:
> Good point, the best thing woud be language dependent settings.
> I will try to find out how to do this. Any hints where to start? Is it
> possible to use e.g. \usepackage{ngerman} or the babel settings
> to figure out what language setting is needed?
> Regards
> Johannes.

I don't know exactly (don't use LaTeX any more), but just as a hint:
since Babel is not being developed & maintained any more, XeTeX users
are now using polyglossia package instead of Babel, and XeTeX users
are primarily the "Unicode-aware" ones. The "traditional TeX-ies"
probably still use ,, and `` for quotation marks, and "a, "o, "u to
get the umlauts. (I'm generalizing too much, but ...)

Besides that, there is german (for traditional german) and ngerman
(for new german orthography), and now Germans have made new
hyphenation patterns, and because backward compatibility may not be
broken, it might be that they'll start using {german-x}, {ngerman-x}
or something similar in not-too-distant future.

Then, you also need to be aware of "project structure". language is
usually defined in master document, and one might \input other file in
master document. Or, maybe it's even possible to use
    \usepackage[german,french]{babel}

Do not ask me, I'm neither LaTeX user nor German. It's just a warning
of things that you need to be aware of when parsing document contents
to extract the language.

Mojca

> 2008/6/4 Mojca Miklavec:
>>
>> 2008/6/4 Édouard Gilbert wrote:
>> > I'll try to have a look at your patch in order to add french « » —
>> > which, in
>> > LaTeX + babel, are written << >>
>> > Édouard GILBERT
>> > edouard.gilbert at gmail.com
>>
>> Just a side note: these quotation marks depend a bit on language, so
>> hardcoding their behaviour globally for every language might have
>> strange side effects. In German for example, quotation marks could
>> just as well be written »like that«, which means that grouping might
>> interefere depending on whether one uses German or French.
>>
>> Mojca
>>
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