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> El 18 oct 2025, a las 19:25, Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> escribió: > > 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? Nothing, will add that… It may be that I’m starting to show emotional fatigue signs… > >>> 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. Exactly, I don’t know how to make you understand. New try: 1. Assume your LaTeX compiler is either lualatex or xelatex 2. If you are OK with the fonts specified in the document class, you use 7bit ASCII and you can live with AE headings, no don’t need anything 3. If you use 7bit and american heading, but want to change the fonts, you need fontspec 4. If you have any character that is not included in your choice of fonts you need fontspec (paradigmatic example are the emojis) Once again: fontspec implements font management _only_. Documents with headers in other languages need either polyglossia or babel. Is it clear now? /PA >> 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>
