On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de> wrote: > Am 19.03.2013 17:24, schrieb Scott Kostyshak: > > >> It would be nice to have export tests for many different languages, > > > I don't think so. As non-native speaker you cannot decide if e.g. all > shorthands are correct and there are countless combinations. We know that > some language combinations won't work because of babel restrictions and it > depends on your LateX distribution what will work and what not. polyglossia > works in most cases fine, but on older TeXLive installations and it does not > yett support all languages of babel. For babel needs to install special > files for some languages and the encoding is importing. For some languages > you can use several encodings. And so on. > So we should concentrate to fix issues the native-speakers reports us.
OK. I was thinking kind of the same thing but with an opposite conclusion. Since we are non-native speakers, we'll never know if we break something in trunk. It's OK for tests to have prerequisites. Many tests already do. Thanks for the response, Scott
