LaTeX template and options for other languages

LaTeX template and options for other languages

[Lyndon Drake]

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Hi,

Would there be any openness to a modification to the LaTeX template to 
allow passing in options for other languages? babel has become pretty good 
at multilingual documents where the script can be used to identify the 
language, so I prefer writing my Markdown documents without the extra 
clutter of the span/div markup for the other languages (in my case, Greek, 
Hebrew, and Syriac).

My best option at the moment is to put the correct babel macros in 
header-includes, which seems to work well, e.g.:

```
      \babelprovide[import,onchar=ids,mapfont=direction]{hebrew}
      \babelfont[hebrew]{rm}[Renderer = Harfbuzz, Ligatures = TeX, 
ItalicFont = TaameyDavidCLM-MediumOblique, BoldFont = TaameyDavidCLM-Bold, 
BoldItalicFont = TaameyDavidCLM-BoldOblique]{TaameyDavidCLM-Medium}
```

This causes a duplicate babelprovide (the one without the options produced 
by the default template) if I do mark any spans or divs with the lang 
attribute, but it gets overridden by my second babelprovide so it works out 
ok.

Best,
Lyndon

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Re: LaTeX template and options for other languages

[Werner LEMBERG]

> ```
>       \babelprovide[import,onchar=ids,mapfont=direction]{hebrew}
>       ...
> ```

Are you sure about this?  The documentation of Babel v3.73 says the
following for option `onchar`:

  This option is not compatible with `mapfont`.


    Werner

Re: LaTeX template and options for other languages

[Lyndon Drake]

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Good point, I was looking at an out-of-date babel documentation PDF. I've 
altered it to:

\babelprovide[import,onchar=ids fonts]{hebrew}
\babelfont[*hebrew]{rm}[Renderer = Harfbuzz, ItalicFont = 
TaameyDavidCLM-MediumOblique, BoldFont = TaameyDavidCLM-Bold, 
BoldItalicFont = TaameyDavidCLM-BoldOblique]{TaameyDavidCLM-Medium}

which I think is the correct approach (font change not needed if the main 
font already provides the appropriate script).

My main question still stands though regarding the \babelprovide. I don't 
know if we could potentially change the default LaTeX template to have this:

\babelprovide[import,onchar=ids fonts]{$babel-otherlangs$}

to get the automatic font/script switching that the bidi algorithm provides?

And is there a way to tell pandoc that there are additional languages, in a 
way that feeds into the babel-otherlangs variable and triggers that section 
of the default template?

Lyndon

On Sunday, 24 April 2022 at 16:45:00 UTC+12 Werner wrote:

> > ```
> > \babelprovide[import,onchar=ids,mapfont=direction]{hebrew}
> > ...
> > ```
>
> Are you sure about this? The documentation of Babel v3.73 says the
> following for option `onchar`:
>
> This option is not compatible with `mapfont`.
>
>
> Werner
>

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