From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Fixes and improvements in org-latex-language-alist (was: ox-latex language handling in Org-9.5 vs 9.6)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:22:00 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <udpvmr$lt8$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878r9biwwm.fsf@localhost>
On 12/09/2023 16:05, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
>
>> Every piece of code accessing this public constant must implement
>> fallback from e.g. "de-ch" (or de_CH) to "de". Or to "en" for an
>> unsupported language.
>
> Not necessarily. I mostly thought about some unconventional code that
> uses the constant for some reason unexpected to us. We do not want to
> break that.
My point is that direct usage of `org-latex-language-alist' should be
discouraged.
>> This languange-region identifiers may be written in different way
>> (dash/underscore, case), but they are used specify POSIX locale LANG,
>> LC_* and extensions like LANGUAGE, so in some cases human friendly names
>> may be less convenient.
>
> Sorry, but I do not follow you about the downsides of "human friendly" names.
I am not against them for the "#+language" keyword (however I am unsure
concerning e.g. human variant for de_IT). In the code I would prefer
ll_RR locale identifiers as a widely accepted practice.
>>> Though I am not sure if we can easily handle tricky
>>> cases like weird installation directory for TeXLive or MikTeX.
>>
>> kpsewhich babel-de.ini
>
> which may not be in the PATH.
From my point of view it is a call to trouble. E.g. I have no idea how
to determine if LuaLaTeX is installed. Notice that in Debian the
executable file is provided by
texlive-latex-base: /usr/bin/lualatex
while actually texlive-luatex must be installed to make lualatex usable.
Unsure if there is a better way than
kpsewhich -engine luahbtex lualatex.fmt
and I am not sure that this particular command is reliable enough.
Moreover kpsewhich may help to detect if some packages are available for
export or a fallback to less advanced ones should be used instead.
>> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/locale/de/babel-de.ini
>
> which is not true on Guix, or when installed under /opt via make install.
It is the exact reason to use kpsewhich. Besides install paths it
respects TEXMF environment variables that may additional user-specific
directories to search path.
> I did not mean the conventional distros that follow conventional naming
> schemes, but the edge cases - I see no point adding automation just to
> fight various non-standard user installations later. It will not make
> maintenance any easier.
I am considering generating of some locale data on a developer machine
that has all necessary packages installed. In general I am against
storing of autogenerated files in git, but in this case it may have sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-12 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-06 14:55 ox-latex language handling in Org-9.5 vs 9.6 Max Nikulin
2023-09-06 22:20 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2023-09-07 10:38 ` Max Nikulin
2023-09-07 11:50 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-07 14:19 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2023-09-07 14:49 ` Max Nikulin
2023-09-08 10:30 ` Max Nikulin
2023-09-08 14:42 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2023-09-08 19:02 ` [patch] Fixes and improvements in org-latex-language-alist (was: ox-latex language handling in Org-9.5 vs 9.6) Juan Manuel Macías
2023-09-09 9:11 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-09 10:36 ` [patch] Fixes and improvements in org-latex-language-alist Juan Manuel Macías
2023-09-09 11:33 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-09 23:59 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2023-09-10 7:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-10 11:06 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2023-09-10 13:36 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-10 16:15 ` [patch] Fixes and improvements in org-latex-language-alist (was: ox-latex language handling in Org-9.5 vs 9.6) Max Nikulin
2023-09-10 16:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-10 21:15 ` [patch] Fixes and improvements in org-latex-language-alist Juan Manuel Macías
2023-09-11 8:32 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-11 17:06 ` [patch] Fixes and improvements in org-latex-language-alist (was: ox-latex language handling in Org-9.5 vs 9.6) Max Nikulin
2023-09-12 9:05 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-12 15:22 ` Max Nikulin [this message]
2023-09-12 18:12 ` [patch] Fixes and improvements in org-latex-language-alist Juan Manuel Macías
2023-09-15 9:54 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-15 9:51 ` [patch] Fixes and improvements in org-latex-language-alist (was: ox-latex language handling in Org-9.5 vs 9.6) Ihor Radchenko
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