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HTH, -- Emmanuel Charpentier Le dim. 2 déc. 2018 à 21:26, <emanuel.charpent...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Dear all, > > Please find enclosed a proposed patch (against master) to document the > need for babel/polyglossia in order to honor #+language in LaTeX > export. > > This is purely a documentation patch. A better solution would be to > detect the use of a non-default #+language: and act accordingly. > Nicolas notes (rightly) that babel (and polyglossia, BTW) are too > "invasive" to be default, and is shy of auto-loading the necessary > package(s) "automagically. > > I do not (yet) know how ti reconcile these imperative, hence the > present interim atch (which should disappear if/when a better solution > is created). > > HTH, > > -- > Emmanuel Charpentier > > > Le jeudi 29 novembre 2018 à 20:12 +0100, Nicolas Goaziou a écrit : > > Emmanuel Charpentier <emanuel.charpent...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > This is *not* *documented* (not even in the `org-latex-packages- > > > alist''s > > > docstring). > > > > I know. I fixed `org-latex-packages-alist''s docstring two days ago. > > > > > Also agreed, with the reservation that "invasive" didn't mean the > > > same > > > thing in the 1980s (when the core size of computers was measured in > > > kilobytes) and in the 2010s (the current core measurement unit is > > > the > > > /giga/byte...). > > > > Not invasive by its sheer size, but by the number of alterations it > > generates in the LaTeX default behaviour, and the incompatibilities > > it > > may introduce. For example there used to be issues between frenchb > > and > > KOMA-Script. > > > > > Again, I think that the end user should *not* have to worry with > > > this only > > > when exporting to LaTeX (or beamer or PDF). > > > > Ideally, that would be nice. > > > > > If this can be handled silently when exporting to ODT, HTML or > > > plain > > > text, it should be handled silently when exporting to LaTeX. > > > > I disagree. Packages should not be loaded /silently/. > > > > > I do not know how to handle this. My *hunch* is that the Latex > > > Export > > > function generating the preamble should check for language > > > > It does already, in `org-latex-guess-babel-language'. > > > > > and if not default, add the relevant package(s) to the preamble. > > > > Don't. Anything that is in the header should be declared. > > > > We could try and see if Babel causes trouble by adding it to default > > packages in "next" branch. I'd rather do that than inserting it > > magically. >
