On 03/03/17 11:00, Jü LyX Document LyX Document LyX Document rgen Spitzmü LyX Document ller wrote: > Am Freitag, den 03.03.2017, 07:28 +0000 schrieb F M Salter: >> Hi >> >> Sorry about the subject, >> >> but being an Englishman I find it a hard pill to swallow that my >> native language is not to be called "english" but "british"! > The reason is that the "english" option of babel is used as an alias > for usenglish (TeX's default language patterns, as TeX is a Stanford > child). However, if another English variety is used (british, canadien, > australian, even american, etc.), english is set to the last one loaded > (a bug in babel, see > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12775/babel-english-american-usenglish) > <http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12775/babel-english-american-use> >> I have found that when using the KOMA scrartcl class with the LyX >> setting "English (UK)" and biblatex/biber, pdflatex issues warnings that >> the babel package setting of english is inappropriate when british is >> the primary language. Babel does provide provide files explicitly >> british. The tex file simply contains the line "\usepackage{babel}". >> >> A number of questions arise: Does the warning matter? > Probably yes (in the cases mentioned above. To the best of my knowledge there is no US-English in my article at all. However the scrartcls is given the arguments [english,british] by LyX! >> Is there some setting, I need to make, >> of which I am unaware? > Yes. Don't use "English" together with "English (UK)". Use > "English(USA)" for american English instead >> Is this a bug in LyX? >> > I wouldn't call it a bug, since LyX provides proper american language > selection. Maybe LyX could take care that "american" is used instead > of "english" if another English variety is in play.
> HTH > Jürgen . Thanks for your quick reply. >> Regards >> >> Frank Salter
