[Therion] Tex and language ?

[Bruce Mutton]

I have also handled French/English maps by writing duplicate tex-map blocks of code, then toggling with two small changes.

  # language en_UK
  # copy LayoutExperimentalHeaderPlan 
  language fr
  copy LayoutExperimentalHeaderPlan-fr

I imagine that what you are doing is similar.  The user impact is OK, but I dislike this approach as it is wasteful writing and maintaining nearly identical blocks of code (especially for three or more languages).  Mistakes and getting them out of sync is inevitable.
I would really like to have access to a tex 'language variable' in the manner you describe.

Bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: Therion [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Xavier Robert via Therion
Sent: Friday, 29 September 2017 11:56 AM
To: Therion <therion at speleo.sk>
Cc: Xavier Robert <xavier.robert at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>
Subject: [Therion] Tex and language ?

Hi all,

I am currently working on maps that can be in french or in spanish.

The thing is that I wrote some tex macros to add items in the header, like « Synthèse : X Y ». Inside a code tex-map/endcode block, I define the term « synthèse » as : \newtoks\thsynth \thsynth={Synthèse }. This is the french word. All my macros are in a config file placed in a parent folder.

In that case, each time I change the language to spanish with the therion « language es » command that I use in my thconfig files, I also need to change the definition of \thsynth in my code tex-map/endcode block to \newtoks\thsynth \thsynth={Síntesis}.

Is there a way to add a condition on the language in the code tex-map/endcode block to avoid changing manually the config file? 

In fact, I am looking for something like:
code tex-map
	\if {language variable = es} \newtoks\thsynth \thsynth={Síntesis} 
	\elsif {language variable = fr} \newtoks\thsynth \thsynth={Synthèse }
	\else \newtoks\thsynth \thsynth={Synthesys}
	\fi	
endcode

Thanks a lot for you lights,
Cheers,

Xavier


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