On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:16:21PM +0100, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:52:37AM +0000, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) > wrote: > > > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > > >Now imagine that you send your document to a friend to make some final > > >corrections& submit PDF for printing ... and that friend has set > > >French or Russian as his default/preferred language, so the printing > > >house will print the document typeset with Russian hyphenation > > >patterns. Wouldn't that be nice? > > > > A document for export can contain Khaled's recommended : > > > > \uselanguage {<whatever>} > > > > A document solely for internal use does not require one, > > nor should one need to be added : the installer should > > ask the user whether it should respect his or her regional > > settings ("locale", in Unix-speak, I believe). > > And if the British author visits Germany he happily uses > > \BenutzedieSprache{Englisch} > > No, wait, without spaces??? > > \Befehlsnamensstart Benutze die Sprache\Befehlsnamenende{Englisch} > > ;-))
ConTeXt had such localised interfaces since day zero I think, and it continues to have now, so I don't think it is a problem, though I don't see how this is related to the issue Philip is raising. Regards, Khaled -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex