On 05/16/2016 12:21 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> [...] 
> > But aren’t \la and \ala synonyms?
> 
> hm no

I asked that after reading the following in lang-def.mkiv:

    \installlanguage % ancient latin
      [\s!ala]
      [\c!default=\s!la]

This is why I thought that both were synonyms.

> > Besides that, Latin has always been an ancient language, hasn’t it?
> 
> yes but still used
> https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_latina
> see the 
> ATM with Contemporary Latin (I dont know if Contemporary is the correct
> term).
> It's the official language of the  Holy See (the official language of
> Vatican is italian & latin)

But does ConTeXt have \la different from \ala because of the Holy See?


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