On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 03:00:21PM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> > I guess we should have a "default" language. We already have an
> > "ignore" language, I do not know what the difference is.
>
> Agreed too! The default language in LaTeX terms is the language which my
> LaTeX installation has as default. So "default" here means just ignore it
This is not a good thing. It means that the result of your tex/lyx file varies
between different machines.
> I don't care about that! So we should have this (we have it as selection
> in the Document->Layout, so IMO that we should have this in the character
> Layout too and it just says don't set the language let it as the document
> default language! Some sort of reset it to default!)
I think that having the "default" option as a document language is confusing.
For example, what happens if you write a document in the default language,
and then add a paragraph in French. In the latex file, the languages used in
the document should be given as optional arguments to the \documentclass
command, but what should be used instead of "default"?
I think that a better option is to remove the "default" language from the
document languages list, and add two lyxrc variables:
default_language - the language which is given to new documents
latex_default_language - the default language of your latex installation.
If you have a document only with this language,
then in the generated tex file, the babel package is
not loaded.
