Re: [PATCH] ox-latex.el: Unify in one single list Babel and Polyglossia languages alists

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 23/07/2022 12:01, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> Juan Manuel Macías writes:
>> 
>>> Here is a new version of the patch, with the fixes added.
>> 
>> Thanks! Considering that the followup discussion deviated from the
>> substance of the patch towards related design issues,
>
> I believed that the subject of discussion is how much values should be 
> added to the alist in addition to babel and polyglossia options: 
> fontenc, paper size, etc.

Adding things like paper size is a much more debatable topic.
Considering the number of expected developments in this area, including
the earlier discussion on XeLaTeX/LuaTeX and preamble generation by TEC,
adding the new specific defaults will need to be a subject of extensive
discussion and testing. I do not see much point delaying this patch,
which provides an immediate improvement in the codebase, until we
complete all that.

> I hope, not so much third party packages use the changed variables, so 
> committing the patch can hardly be harmful even in the case of 
> additional change of the list format in future.

This alist is rather internal variable representing current defaults. I
am not even sure how it can be useful for third-party packages. It
should not be modified by packages either (defconst).

Best,
Ihor