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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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Here is something I think that should be added to the documentation.
  <div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><i class="">In the ConTeXt 
garden (page Command/mainlanguage) the description is:</i></div><div 
class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">mainlanguage <span 
style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); 
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Set the language of 
auto-generated language elements, like the title of the table of 
contents or the appendix.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div
 class=""><div class=""><i class="">On the Command/language page:</i></div><div
 class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: 
rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255,
 255);" class="">Change the hyphenation rules, quotation marks, all that
 sort of thing, to that of a different language. (The default language 
is English.)</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Testing
 showed that \mainlanguage sets both \currentlanguage and 
\currentmainlanguage to the same value, while \language sets 
\currentlanguage only.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div 
class="">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. </div></div></div>
</blockquote>
<br>
It's a wiki, it's possible to add the information yourself.<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite" 
cite="mid:3DC2AB5C-197E-495F-A74C-1D04BD576A83@ziggo.nl" 
style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: 
after-white-space;">
  <div class="">
    <div class="">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.<br>
    </div>
  </div>
</blockquote>
<br>
1. You're breaking nearly every existing document.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Wolfgang<br>
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