G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> On 31.03.08, Luis Rivera wrote:
> > Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > 
> > > Does LaTeX support such rarely encountered languages?
> > > Liviu
> > > 
> > It does: provided you supply an appropriately formatted <language>.ldf file
> > somewhere in your TEXPATH.
> 
> Could LyX generate the list of supported languages by looking for *.ldf
> files in the LaTeX-Configure step?
> 

I guess it could, but I foresee two drawbacks:

1. Not all languages in Babel's kernel are defined in independent ldf files 
(all variations of french, portuguese, and english share a common ldf, IIRC; 
they apply different sets of specifications defined in babel.def);

2. You need to read/write these lists somewhere in LyX path, so you need to add 
an extra module to read/write a file containing this list of languages and 
display them in LyX menus. This requires a rewrite of this routine in LyX guts, 
and that's developers job.

Somewhere in between might be ideal: specify this read/write routine, define 
the languages in Babel kernel as default, and add all undefined languages by 
ldf files via LaTeX-Configure. In any event, this route will require developer 
attention.

Luis.


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