Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <[email protected]> writes: >> Any reason you discarded the changes I suggested for LaTeX specific >> export settings? > I perceived the result as suboptimal and it called for more questions. > I feel we need to call it a day and move on. Nothing is cast in iron and > time will tell if we need to further polish the manual.
What about The strategy to handle multi-lingual features. Possible values - are ~nil~, ~fontspec~, ~polyglossia~ or ~babel~. + are ~nil~ (default), ~fontspec~, ~polyglossia~ or ~babel~. See more details about setting up multi-language documents in the What's wrong with that? >> configure the document's fonts using LaTeX's ~fontspec~ package. >> This package assumes that the document is intended for an American >> English context (i.e. header, figure, table names and typesetting >> - options will be set for American English). >> + options will be set for American English), possibly containing >> + characters not covered by the default LaTeX fonts. >> >> Without this clarification, it was not very clear why one needs fontspec >> if the document is already in American English. > > Nope, when you are not using pdflatex, you use fontspec to control the > main fonts. > "As a bonus feature", you get the font fallback mechanism you may need > or not.... > i.e. _even_ if the document uses the 7-bit ASCII character set to > produce an American English document. But that's exactly what my proposed change is hinting towards. If the document has characters not covered by the default fonts, you need fontspec... I feel that we are miscommunicating. > Once again: fontspec implements font management _only_. > babel and polyglossia implement localisation (and call fontspec > internally (ie. silently, automatically) to manage fonts. > babel is "intelligent" enough to determine what the LaTeX compiler in > use offers and get the best out of it. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
