Ross Moore wrote:
Sorry Phil, but I agree with Mojca on this one.
I too can appreciate Mojca's perspective ...
Has it not always been this way in the TeX word?
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with TeX, and the Word was TeX." ?!
Is not this consistency in TeX one of its major strengths?
Yes, it is, which is why I say I can appreciate Mojca's perspective. But consistency can be interpreted in more than one way : TeX is, traditionally, consistent across installations; what I am suggesting is that there is a case for making it consistent with the way that other applications operate within a single location, by (optionally) honouring the user's regional settings / locale ...
I've not seen any compelling reason to change this.
My real reason for suggesting this was the Law of Least Surprise. I was genuinely surprised when I found that a book, written by a British author, and typeset on a British computer, was using American rules for hyphenation. ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
