Re: allowing an @modifier for documentlanguage locale-based argument

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:02:52 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:53:54 +0200
> From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> > > @documentscript latin
> > 
> > Script and language are not the same.  There are scripts which support
> > many languages (the most obvious example is the latin script).
> 
> Indeed.  @documentscript would only be for the script, and should only
> be needed if there are multiple scripts.  For example
> 
> @documentlanguage sr
> @documentscript Latn

That's so rare I doubt a general-purpose facility is justified.  There
are maybe half a dozen languages in the whole world that can be
written with more than one script.  So using modifiers here is much
more reasonable, IMO.

Your call, of course.