Re: [PATCH] ox-latex.el: `org-latex-language-alist' improved

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Max Nikulin writes:

> Likely never variant is ideal. Maybe language should be always in
> :babel and :babel-ini-only should be boolean. I am not sure though
> that it will not make code more complex in other places, so feel free
> to ignore this comment.

What you say makes a lot of sense. Really the only reason why I avoided
doing something like that was rather the economy, so I didn't have to
put things like (two properties instead of one):

:babel xx :babel-ini-only t etc.

It is also expected that babel-ini-only is a 'temporary' property. At
least I would like it to be so.

According to the Babel documentation:

> Babel is moving gradually from the old and fuzzy concept of language
> to the more modern of locale.

Which is precisely what the new ini files are meant for. Now these files
can only be loaded via \babelprovide or by adding provide=* (and some
other variants) to the babel arguments (this last option is not
supported by my patch, for pdfLaTeX compatibility, where ini files don't
work. I imagine that when that transition is complete, there will be a
more inclusive and universal interface in babel. 

Best regards,

Juan Manuel