Re: Language selection code

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 27.03.2015 um 09:24 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > triggered by a discussion on -user I have begun to implement a new
> > \language command which in addition to setting the note names input
> > language
> Why would you set the note names input language?
Huh? That’s only what \language has always been used for.
> > also automatically translates the default text fields in tagline and
> > table of contents, or may be used for both tasks separately.
> Makes it kind of hard to write a document to be presented in several
> languages if switching the language makes all the input invalid.
IIUC, you mean: I write a document using \language MY_NATIVE_LANGUAGE 
(thus for input and output), then I want to send it to my french 
publisher (contrived example… :-)), change into \language francais, and 
all the note input is broken?
In that case you’d have to distinguish input and output language using
\language input.MY_NATIVE_LANGUAGE
\language output.francais.

I hope that makes it clearer.

~ Simon