Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
Am 27.03.2015 um 09:24 schrieb David Kastrup:
Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
Hello,
triggered by a discussion on -user I have begun to implement a new
\language command which in addition to setting the note names input
language
Why would you set the note names input language?
Huh? That’s only what \language has always been used for.
Then it would seem to be a bad idea to misuse this command for
specifying an output language setting.
IIUC, you mean: I write a document using \language MY_NATIVE_LANGUAGE
(thus for input and output), then I want to send it to my french
publisher (contrived example… :-)), change into \language francais,
and all the note input is broken?
In that case you’d have to distinguish input and output language using
\language input.MY_NATIVE_LANGUAGE
\language output.francais.
I hope that makes it clearer.
There was nothing unclear to me previously. I just don't think it makes
any sense to conflate document language selection with the \language
command. The \language commands works on LilyPond syntax, not on
document language.