On 2016-02-23, Georg Baum wrote: > Guillaume Munch wrote: >> Thank you for your taking time for making these points. So nobody seem >> to agree that this is as low risk / high reward as Uwe thinks (I cannot >> judge by myself since I am not familiar with this part of LyX; for >> instance, I thought that this would provide also spell-checking and >> support for multi-language documents). Maybe this is the reply that Uwe >> was looking for.
> Yes, it is a prerequisite for spell checking (you also need dictionaries, I > don't know if they exist for these languages). Multilanguage documents can > be created with similar workarounds to the ones I mentioned. Actually, it is quite a hard thing to manage languages "by hand", as LyX automates most of the work. Multilanguage documents would require a babel call for all languages in the user preamble and ERT for the language switch. OTOH, lib/languages can be copied to the user LyXdir and customized, so experienced or adventurous users do not need to wait 2 years. Günter
