On 2010-03-01, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> But this is just one side. A filename, a C command or some Acronym in a >> Greek document do not gain from beeing marked as another language but >> still should keep Latin letters as such!
> Then, the user should still mark the code semantically (as LyX code or > whatever), and this semantic markup should take care about the encoding. While this is the "reine Lehre", it is often impractical (besides the impossibility to mark inline text as LyX code). * Quite a lot of acronyms are international and will not be hyphenated anyway. * SI unit symbols are international as well. * Short quotes in a language that I do not have installed. It would be misleading to mark e.g. a Vietnamese quote as French in a Greek document, just to prevent it to become Greeeknamese. Also, the current behaviour is unusal in two ways: a) In LyX, I can easily insert Greek or Cyrillic symbols/words in a text written with the Latin or Cyrillic alphabet, this is currently not possible for Latin inside Greek. b) In other Unicode aware programs (as well as with LyX/XeTeX), Latin characters stay Latin even in a Greek context. Practicability beats purity! Günter
