Re: [Question] A single *-language-alist in ox-latex.el?

[Stefan Nobis]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Well, if I'm not mistaken, the situation in the LaTeX ecosystem is
> this: Polyglossia appeared as a babel replacement for XelaTeX and
> LuaLaTeX, since babel, at that time, had no support for these two
> new Unicode based TeX engines.

And, as far as I remember, babel development had nearly ceased during
that period.

Since quite some years, the development has gained much more traction
for babel and, as far as I read, babel is today as good or superior to
polyglossia in many regards (but polyglossia is also in quite a good
shape today). See for example:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/482396/decide-between-polyglossia-and-babel-for-lualatex-in-2019

In short: Babel is a very good choice in almost all cases, maybe
except for right-to-left texts set with XeLaTeX.

> But I think it does not make much sense to mantain in ox-latex.el
> two separate lists today. Maybe, for simplicity, it would be better
> to unify the two lists in a single db, something like
> `org-latex-language-alist'. What do you think?

+1

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Until the next mail...,
Stefan.