Making Spanish docs less dependent on Babel

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 11:45:56PM +0200, Dan wrote:
> Sorry for responding this late. I have been very busy these last two weeks, so I completely disconnected from the mailing lists.

Never a problem. It's important to disconnect! I've actually wanted to try to do something like check my LyX messages only once every few days. I just haven't been able to commit to it though.

> 1 d’oct. de 2023, 2:54 per skostysh at lyx.org:
> 
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > Currently (before your patches), the Spanish documents are set to use Babel. This might have made sense at the time, but Polyglossia should also work and it would be nice to allow either Babel or Polyglossia.
> >
> > Do you have interest in helping us to relax the Babel-specific parts of the Spanish documents? If you have interest, I could take a look and be more specific with what I'm asking. If you don't have interest, no problem at all. You've already spent a lot of time improving the documents.
> >
> Currently I am focused on translating manuals and the PO files (almost done with the latter); but those are goals in the long run. I am open and willing to help out in whatever I can: tell me what you need me to do or help with.

Sounds good.

> > You can see past conversation on this topic here:
> >
> >  > https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20230208180200.jrjegozjf3ji7lwj%40gary
> >
> As stated in one of the emails (https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg219273.html) Babel does have very good support for Spanish, including mathematical operators (lim, limsup, sin, max, and the like). Thus, I have never used anything other than Babel and completely ignore how well Polyglossia supports Spanish.

Jürgen is actually a developer of Polyglossia. So I think if we try to remove the Babel hardcoding and run into problems, he might be able to fix them or at least give an idea of what's going on.

> Will give a hand in whatever I can.

Thanks, I'm not sure what the next step is. I guess you or I would just need to change the "Always babel" and see what happens.

Scott
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