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Support \foreignlanguage{austrian}{…} and friends #112
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I attach my issue here because I think the issue is about the general support of Austrian language in polyglossia. Consider the following MWE
Even though I declared Austrian as default language (same for "mainlanguage"), the caption title is "Figure", hence in English language. But Austrian is a german dialect and should inherits its definition of the caption title "Abbildung" ( As far as I can see the problem can be fixed by defining best regards, |
@meisterluk, you have to use
See polyglossia manual. The feature request here is to introduce |
Vice versa, I think it would be a good idea to provide a command This would make it easier for external packages (such as biblatex) I think. |
One problem here is that there are overlapping language names: |
This allows to define alias language names that work in \text<alias>, the <alias> environment as well as in babel commands. Prerequisite to address reutenauer#112
This allows to define alias language names that work in \text<alias>, the <alias> environment as well as in babel commands. Prerequisite to address reutenauer#112
As of v1.46, all babel names can be used as aliases (except for, obviously, |
It’s great that polyglossia supports the babel syntax, too. Some of the language variants, however, do not work as expected. E.g.,
\foreignlanguage{english}{\today}
and\foreignlanguage{german}{\today}
work.\foreignlanguage{british}{\today}
and\foreignlanguage{austrian}{\today}
don’t (no output at all).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: