any chance that this gets implemented on the TeX side?
It would be very nice.
Basically, it should be just an interface to the plain TeX
implementation of Babel, right?
I don't know. All we really have to do is set \language. Do we need
Babel for that?
Now that etex (in TL'08)
Basically, it should be just an interface to the plain TeX
implementation of Babel, right?
I don't know. All we really have to do is set \language. Do we need
Babel for that?
Well \language expects a number, doesn't it? Using Babel, we can use
a string instead...
Has
Well \language expects a number, doesn't it?
Yes.
Using Babel, we can use a string instead...
Clearly we have to map from the existing @documentlanguage strings in
Texinfo to the numbers that were dumped in the .fmt file for the various
languages. If Babel can help us do that, and