Re: New try at multi-lingual export to latex/pdf using pdflatex and babel

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez writes:
>
>> I agree it does not take advantage of the AUTO facility here, but I
>> nevertheless think it would
>> be interesting to show people how to do this. Until we expand the AUTO
>> facility to cope with
>> all quirks of multi-language in pdflatex (lualatex and xetex are a
>> different pair of shoes), a quick
>> and dirty alternative may be helpful for people. The introductory text
>> could be
>
> Pedro, the only problem I see with that is that it is an example of
> LaTeX rather than Org. The only Org part here is #+LaTeX_header, and in
> the entire section it's already made clear enough what it's used for.
>
> Perhaps a brief reminder (the AUTO facility of the previous examples
> is very limited) could be added first, and that if the users want to
> obtain more complex, or more specific results (like the case you
> exemplify for pdfLaTeX) they must put explicit LaTeX code, using
> LaTeX_header. And then your example would come, but emphasizing that the
> LaTeX documentation must be consulted. wdyt?
>
> My point is that if we abuse examples of this type (at the expense of
> "#+latex_header:something"), or "how is this done in LaTeX?", in the end
> a LaTeX manual is made instead of Org.

A gentle ping. This patch is still hanging in the air.

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