Hi all,
I would like to start a thread on this question, leaving some basic ideas and
sketches of my own, in case someone else wanted to join the discussion.
I think it would be nice if Org Mode offered consistent support (out of
the box) for multilingual documents. That is, those documents where
there is a main language and it is possible to toggle between a list of
others 'secondary' languages, in the LaTeX Babel way. Those documents
could be consistently exported to other formats with multilingual
support: LaTeX, of course, but also html, odt, etc.
What is your opinion?
I think Org documents should have three levels in multilingual management:
- Short text segments, something like an 'inline block' for other languages
- Blocks
- Sections
For short inline segments, IMHO and without the need to innovate, I
think an excellent candidate are the links defined with
org-link-set-parameters. For example:
Lorem ipsum [[lang:de][some text in German]] dolor sit amet
(For structures of this kind I found very interesting ideas here:
https://github.com/alhassy/org-special-block-extras)
As for blocks, I think of a hypothetical 'lang' block:
#+begin_lang el :variant polytonic
Some text in polytonic Greek...
#+end_lang
However, in a previous thread
(87k0og8fss.fsf@list.aleks.bg/">https://orgmode.org/list/87k0og8fss.fsf@list.aleks.bg/) Aleksandar
Dimitrov proposed an idea that seemed very suggestive, at least in
concept: add a ':lang' argument to the Org code blocks:
#+begin_src org :lang fr
Some text in french
#+end_src