> The babel code certainly push to think in this way. But imho nothing > prevents a language.ldf author to setup internally three > (independant) languages, e.g. classiclatin, medievallatin, > modernlatin,
In fact, german, austrian and swissgerman have been defined as separated languages (even if defined in a single file) for ages. If variants are needed, this is the way to go. > But as this questions doesn't affect only latin but other languages > with modifiers too it should be perhaps better be handled by babel > in some way. Modifiers are mainly intended for readjustmens in a variant which are considered global, as well as settings which must be known somwhow when the ldf is loaded. Javier
