Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:
> If we know what the solution is, the implementation is straightforward I
> guess.
>
> I think we should output \textlatin for the latin characters as we do with
> \textgreek for greek characters.
>
> Language English:
> \textcyr{\char254} \textgreek{a} s
>
> Language Greek:
> \textcyr{\char254} <alpha unicode char> \textlatin{s}
>
> Language Russian:
> <russian unicode char> \textgreek{a} \textlatin{s}
> or
> <russian unicode char> \textgreek{a} s
>
> Then we still need to hardcode for which encodings/languages we should use
> the \textlatin notation. (But things are already hardcoded for textcyr and
> textgreek as well.
>
> Is this ok ?
Note that \textlatin will only switch the font encoding, not the language. So
\textlatin{text} on a Greek context will not input English text into Greek,
but roman characters (the same is true for \textgreek in latin context; that's
why people who _really_ want to write Greek in, say, an English text and not
only insert an alpha character, are advised to switch the language to Greek;
if not, hyphenation and everything will be wrong).
In short: \textlatin might be useful for Greek users who want to insert some
latin characters (language-insensitively), but it will not solve the "Greek
text mixed with English" problem.
Jürgen
