X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1190" "Wed" "26" "January" "1994" "13:28:55" "+0100" "Bernard GAULLE" "gaulle@IDRIS.FR" "<199401261231.AA02147@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "31" "Re: Changing default preloads" "^Date:" nil nil "1" "1994012612:28:55" "Changing default preloads" (number " " mark " Bernard GAULLE Jan 26 31/1190 " thread-indent "\"Re: Changing default preloads\"\n") nil]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA09071; Wed, 26 Jan 94 13:33:57 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA25648; Wed, 26 Jan 94 13:31:55 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA02147 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Wed, 26 Jan 1994 13:31:53 +0100 Message-Id: <199401261231.AA02147@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1360; Wed, 26 Jan 94 13:31:54 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 1359; Wed, 26 Jan 1994 13:31:54 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 8342; Wed, 26 Jan 1994 13:31:33 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 13:28:55 +0100 From: Bernard GAULLE Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Changing default preloads Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1293 >>>>> The Wed, 26 Jan 1994 10:37:58 LCL, >>>>> Mike Piff wrote: FMi> %>Frank Mittelbach writes:/.../ FMi> %> > To keep documents portable it is essential to start off with the same FMi> %> > encoding on every installation. Right. SR> %>/.../ SR> %> the same applies to SR> %>hyphenation - i suppose you want me to type \language{EN} or whatever SR> %>at the start of every single thing i write? we are stuck with american SR> %>hyphenation by default for ever and ever? SR> %> SR> %>sebastian It would be a wrong way, i agree. MP> I agree with Sebastian. The documentation says that you can create your own MP> configuration file to change the hyphenation patterns, which I have done to MP> provide GB English hyphenation for GB English users. /.../ MP> Mike As suggested by the LaTeXV3-VT15-Working-Group, \language=0 could be reserved to an empty default language, letting the installation to define its own default language. This would oblige documents arriving with any other default language to be slightly modified with something like Sebastian said. Please have a look at the document published in the archives for any further argumentation. --bg