babel treatment with lang=

[kohlhase]

• [x] I have a couple of occurrences where I want multiple languages, does lang={de,en} work?

• [x] In the turkish files, we needed

  \usepackage[turkish,shorthands=:!]{babel}% restricted shorthands, otherwise we have problems with keyval, which we need

  to make LaTeX happy, is this information used in sTeX?

• [ ] dito for chinese: There I currently have

  \usepackage{fontspec}
  \setmainfont[AutoFakeBold=4]{FandolFang}
  \XeTeXlinebreaklocale "zh"
  \XeTeXlinebreakskip = 0pt plus 1pt minus 0.1pt

  Is that possible to put into the language handling?

[Jazzpirate]

* [ ]  dito for chinese: There I currently have

I - for now - can take no responsibility for chinese, for the simple reason that I have not experimented with xetex at all. Also, RusTeX won't be able to handle xetex commands, like the above three...

[kohlhase]

I - for now - can take no responsibility for chinese, for the simple reason that I have not experimented with xetex at all.

Unfortunately, I do not have real experience with chinese either, but I maintain, the lang= mechanism should be sufficient to handle the chinese stuff gracefully (at least at the PDF side).

Also, RusTeX won't be able to handle xetex commands, like the above three...

all the more reason not to have them explicitly in the source code.

[kohlhase]

Dennis complains about setting an arbitrary sytstem font in an sTeX package; and I agree, even though I maintain the details of handling chinese in TeX should be hidden from the user and not be part of the math archives.

The current xetex/FandolFang based solution is the recommendation of about 7 years ago, maybe something better has emerged, e.g. one of the solutions described in https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Chinese works better by now.

[Jazzpirate]

moved into a separate issue