On 2019-05-24, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 07:18:49AM -0000, Guenter Milde wrote:
>> On 2019-05-23, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 04:08:01PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>> >> UserGuide.lyx - few notes for lineno.
>> > User guide is currently uncompilable baceuse lot of latex errors:
>> Compiles fine here (LyX 2.4.dev with texlive17 from Debian/stable).
> Debian & texlive16 here.
>> > * Package babel error: Unknown option 'french' (because of
>> > \selectlanguage{french})
>> The English user guide has some parts in other languages for
>> demonstration purposes, this is a feature. (There may be no need for
>> both, "English" and "English (UK)", though.)
>> French is added to the document class options, so it should be known to
>> babel.
>> Maybe you don't have French Babel support (frenchb.ldf) installed?
>> In Debian this is in package "texlive-lang-french".
> Yes, I was thinking some babel package might be needed, but
> we shouldn't expect this to be installed just for the sake of UserGuide...
> Instead we should remove the offending part (or move it to specialized
> document where it's reasonable ppl will have french/spanish babel stuff
> set up).
Tricky. We have the two incentives:
a) Few requirements (no heavy dependencies) for the documents.
b) Provide best practice examples in the documentation.
Setting the appropriate language for foreign-language text parts is
recommended.
Günter
> Pavel
