Enrico Forestieri wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 03:05:39AM +0300, Dov Feldstern wrote:
Enrico Forestieri wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 02:31:05AM +0300, Dov Feldstern wrote:
Enrico Forestieri wrote:
With your patch applied, when I mark as english the footnote content
I correctly see a \selectlanguage{english} inserted before "bla bla bla".
But I also see that the whole footnote inset is marked as foreign, so I
select the whole of it and mark it as english. Now it is not underlined
anymore but the \selectlanguage{english} is gone, too!
That's fine: once you set the language of the inset to be equal to that
of the text inside it, then the language switch command will happen
*before* the inset, and therefore there's no need for the language
switch to happen inside.
Hope you are right, as what I obtain in this case is:
\selectlanguage{italian}
BLA BLA BLA\foreignlanguage{english}{}%
\footnote{bla bla bla%
}\selectlanguage{english}
I would like "bla bla bla" to be in English, but it seems to me that
it will be in Italian, instead...
hmmm, I don't know about the \foreignlanguage command, I've been playing
around with either \selectlanguage or \L and \R, which are RTL-specific.
Is there nothing you can type inside the footnote that will appear
differently, depending on the language it's in? punctuation or something?
The LaTeX output is clear, I think. However, just to be sure, I put
\today in the footnote and it gave the date in Italian format.
That doesn't mean anything. The \foreignlanguage command is used for
just inserting short excerpts from another language, but without
changing the environment things like the date, etc. So you may be in
english and still be seeing the Italian date. But anyhow, you're right,
the above case is pretty clear, and it's not working correctly.
Try it with the last patch I sent last night (subject: [new patch]),
which is much more extensive, and addresses this issue as well...
Moreover, after marking the footnote inset itself as English, I cannot
obtain anymore the \selectlanguage{english} inside the footnote even
trying to mark again as english the content.
The error here is that \footnote should be the argument of
\foreignlanguage but it is left out of it. Thinking about it,
as the footnote could have more paragraphs, \selectlanguage{english}
should be used, in order to avoid a "runaway argument" error in LaTeX.
This is what my latest patch does, among other things. Again, I'm using
the \L and \R, and they don't have a problem with having a footnote with
multiple paragraphs inside them. If \foreignlanguage does have a problem
with that, then you're right, something would have to be done about it...
Dov
