Making Spanish docs less dependent on Babel

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 12:52:22PM +0200, Dan wrote:
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> 4 d’oct. de 2023, 23:45 per d3vf4n at tutanota.com:
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> > Sorry for responding this late. I have been very busy these last two weeks, so I completely disconnected from the mailing lists.
> >
> >
> > 1 d’oct. de 2023, 2:54 per skostysh at lyx.org:
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> >> Hi Dan,
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> >> 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.
> >>
> I did not forget about this, Scott. The compilation of documents with the package polyglossia asked for some missing LaTeX packages. I tried installing one in my TeXLive user tree; it then asked for another, and so on.
> As my LaTeX distribution consists of OS packages that actually install TeXLive, and I do not want to mess it up, I having been looking up how to set up and manage a local tree and use it for testing with LyX.
> 
> I hope I can write back with some news soon.

No hurry at all, Daniel! Indeed, I understand that can be tricky. On Linux it took me a while to set up my TeX Live installation to how I like it (e.g., making a backup before a tlmgr update).

Scott


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