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| author | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2018-01-11 21:03:09 -0800 |
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| committer | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2018-01-11 21:03:09 -0800 |
| commit | 9f888659f77866cd0e5efe454a1c66ac8ec580cf (patch) | |
| tree | 9881668c546508f02737a9ffaad2a6f0128adefb | |
| parent | c5ba3b8ee32704f1fdf241480ba64950f8ceedd8 (diff) | |
| download | pandoc-9f888659f77866cd0e5efe454a1c66ac8ec580cf.tar.gz | |
MANUAL.txt: clarify otherlangs in LaTeX.
Closes #4072.
| -rw-r--r-- | MANUAL.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index 933a5e8f1..766094a94 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -1350,21 +1350,12 @@ Language variables format stored in the additional variables `babel-lang`, `polyglossia-lang` (LaTeX) and `context-lang` (ConTeXt). - Native pandoc `span`s and `div`s with the lang attribute + Native pandoc Spans and Divs with the lang attribute (value in BCP 47) can be used to switch the language in - that range. - -`otherlangs` -: a list of other languages used in the document - in the YAML metadata, according to [BCP 47]. For example: - `otherlangs: [en-GB, fr]`. - This is automatically generated from the `lang` attributes - in all `span`s and `div`s but can be overridden. - Currently only used by LaTeX through the generated - `babel-otherlangs` and `polyglossia-otherlangs` variables. - The LaTeX writer outputs polyglossia commands in the text but - the `babel-newcommands` variable contains mappings for them - to the corresponding babel. + that range. In LaTeX output, `babel-otherlangs` and + `polyglossia-otherlangs` variables will be generated + automatically based on the `lang` attributes of Spans + and Divs in the document. `dir` : the base direction of the document, either `rtl` (right-to-left) |