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Organization: The Dreaming
Date:         Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:35:12 +0100
From: Martin Schroeder <ms@DREAM.HB.NORTH.DE>
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Subject:      NLS for (La)TeX (was: International documents)
Status: R

In <199702122047.VAA22848@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach@UNI-MAINZ.DE> writes:
[...]
>what else? i really would like to hear some comments and, if you have
>any, additional items that would make the above list longer and more
>complete.

To expand the topic a bit further: I'm still waiting (and hoping) for a
(La)TeX implementation that speaks e.g. german and corresponds in measurements
understood by a normal (non-TeXnician) user; i.e. instead of
        Overfull \hbox (2.0pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 140--140
it would output something like
        Zu volle \hbox (0.7029mm zu breit) im Absatz in den Zeilen 140--140

So what is needed is NLS for TeX and LaTeX.
For TeX this should be simple; a change file should suffice.
But for LaTeX? The messages are hardcoded into the kernel... :-(

Any chance of having something like this in LaTeX3?

Best regards
        Martin

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               Martin Schr"oder, MS@Dream.HB.North.DE
(A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nfluence with large hammer (David Hendrix)