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@@ -5541,10 +5541,23 @@ A few other metadata fields affect bibliography formatting:
`lang`
: The `lang` field will affect how the style is localized,
- for example in the translation of labels and the use
- of quotation marks. (For backwards compatibility,
- `locale` may be used instead of `lang`, but this use
- is deprecated.)
+ for example in the translation of labels, the use
+ of quotation marks, and the way items are sorted.
+ (For backwards compatibility, `locale` may be used instead
+ of `lang`, but this use is deprecated.)
+
+ A BCP 47 language tag is expected: for example, `en`,
+ `de`, `en-US`, `fr-CA`, `ug-Cyrl`. The unicode extension
+ syntax (after `-u-`) may be used to specify options for
+ collation (sorting) more precisely. Here are some examples:
+
+ - `zh-u-co-pinyin` -- Chinese with the Pinyin collation.
+ - `es-u-co-trad` -- Spanish with the traditional collation
+ (with `Ch` sorting after `C`).
+ - `fr-u-kb` -- French with "backwards" accent sorting
+ (with `coté` sorting after `côte`).
+ - `en-US-u-kf-upper` -- English with uppercase letters sorting
+ before lower (default is lower before upper).
`notes-after-punctuation`
: If true (the default), pandoc will put footnote citations
@@ -5556,12 +5569,6 @@ A few other metadata fields affect bibliography formatting:
punctuation.
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# Slide shows
You can use pandoc to produce an HTML + JavaScript slide presentation