Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Well and the babel package is a good demonstration of the difficulties when using various languages and scripts in a document. Do you think one should add this difficulties to formats and packages?
What I think is that we need to /explore/ the idea, rather than reject it out of hand. See immediately preceding post for a more detailed discussion. ** Phil. P.S. And of course I was not accusing you (Ulrike) or any non-native speaker of "linguistic imperialism"; rather I was seeking to suggest that linguistic imperialism is all pervasive in the received wisdom, and it is time to challenge that. If it makes me furious to have to write "color" rather than "colour", how must it make someone feel who would actually expect to be able to write (say) "颜", "χρώμα" or "Farbe" ? -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
