Re: languages

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>]

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Hans van der Meer schrieb am 18.07.2021 um 16:39:
> Here is something I think that should be added to the documentation.
>
> /In the ConTeXt garden (page Command/mainlanguage) the description is:/
>
> mainlanguage Set the language of auto-generated language elements, 
> like the title of the table of contents or the appendix.
>
> /On the Command/language page:/
>
> Change the hyphenation rules, quotation marks, all that sort of thing, 
> to that of a different language. (The default language is English.)
>
> Testing showed that \mainlanguage sets both \currentlanguage and 
> \currentmainlanguage to the same value, while \language sets 
> \currentlanguage only.
>
> My suggestion is to add info to this behaviour to the mainlanguage 
> page, reflecting the fact that \mainlanguage does set both 
> \currentlanguage and \currentmainlanguage.Which is not apparent from 
> the current documentation.

It's a wiki, it's possible to add the information yourself.

> Another solution would be to separate \language and \mainlanguage 
> completely. An option I would prefer for clarity, because now the 
> order of calling \language and \mainlanguage makes a difference.

1. You're breaking nearly every existing document.

2. \language is only needed when you use more than 1 language in a 
document, otherwise \mainlanguage is enough to change labels and 
hyphentation patterns.

Wolfgang


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