From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Introduce ox-i18n.el
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:29:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sizxorhr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ip0thqzi.fsf@pank.eu> (rasmus@gmx.us's message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:21:53 +0200")
Hello,
Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>> Because it is not meant to be changed by the user nor let-bound. IOW,
>> it's a constant.
>
> But perhaps it should not be.
>
> Consider org-export-smart-quotes-alist.
> In Danish, according to the 'official' guidance, all of the following
> are appropriate
>
> (*) ,,.'', ``.'', `.', >>.<<, >.<.
>
> Basically, only the french <<.>> is not appropriate. A similar
> situation exists in Norwegian, to the best of my knowledge. Why
> should I (submitting a patch) be able to actively force which of forms
> in (*) should be used?
>
> One remedy /in LaTeX/ would be to let quote-characters be selected by
> csquote, but I don't really know if I'd want to go that way. . .
>
> Alternatively, we can populate the various language variables and
> provide easy means to alter them, a la:
>
> (org-alter-language "da" :left-latex "``" :right-latex "''" :table
> "tabel").
Even though it is a defconst, you can still change it. You are not
forced to anything. But you're on your own.
By the way, it is a defconst because of the keys, which shouldn't be
altered, not the values.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-02 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-29 14:06 [RFC] Introduce ox-i18n.el Nicolas Goaziou
2013-06-29 15:01 ` Bastien
2013-06-29 15:22 ` Rasmus
2013-07-01 10:13 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-07-01 10:19 ` Bastien
2013-07-02 6:37 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-02 15:39 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-02 16:21 ` Rasmus
2013-07-02 16:29 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2013-07-02 17:10 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-02 17:26 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-02 17:40 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-02 17:43 ` Rasmus
2013-07-02 18:12 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-02 16:40 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-02 13:04 ` Rasmus
2013-07-02 16:30 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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