Re: [patch] Fixes and improvements in org-latex-language-alist

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Ihor Radchenko writes:

> I am thinking about something like
>
> (let ((de-plist '(...)))
>  `(...
>    ("de" ,@de-plist)
>    ("de-de" ,@de-plist)
>    ...))
>
> This is copy-paste-proof and does not require breaking changes in the
> value structure.

I like the idea because it avoids errors, but I don't know if
it's worth it, there being only two cases (at the moment). This other
possibility occurred to me, just to make it easier to read and not have
to navigate to the list of variables:

(let* ((basic-code)
       (shared-plist (lambda (&rest plist)
                 (setq basic-code plist))))
  `(...
    ("de" ,(funcall shared-plist :babel "ngerman" :babel-ini-alt "german" 
:polyglossia "german" :polyglossia-variant "german" :lang-name "German" :script 
"latin" :script-tag "latn"))
    ("de-de" ,@basic-code)
    ...
    ("zh" ,(funcall shared-plist :babel-ini-only "chinese" :polyglossia 
"chinese" :lang-name "Chinese Simplified" :script "hans" :script-tag "hans"))
    ("zh-cn" ,@basic-code)))

Likewise, there being two cases (even in the case of Chinese you could
perfectly omit zh-cn, because it is a new language and there is no
danger of regression), I would say that it is not worth complicating the
code so much.

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