Re: [Docutils-users] Is rst2odt -l cs supposed to work?

[Dave K. <dku...@da...>]

> Thank you for that suggestion, Matěj.  I did know about that.

Rats.  Meant to say I did *not* know.

And, Matěj, thanks for being patient with me and thank you for all
your help with this.

Dave K.

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 02:29:00PM -0700, Dave Kuhlman wrote:
> Günter and Matěj,
> 
> I did the commit.
> 
> And, before I did so, I took Matěj's suggestion about using
> ``locale.normalize(lang), so now you can use::
> 
>     $ rst2odt.py -l cs somedoc.txt somedoc.odt
>     $ rst2odt.py -l es somedoc.txt somedoc.odt
> 
> to get Czech and Spanish (Spain).
> 
> And, of course, you can override the region, for example::
> 
>     $ rst2odt.py -l cs-GB  somedoc.txt somedoc.odt
>     $ rst2odt.py -l es-mx somedoc.txt somedoc.odt
> 
> to get British English and Mexican Spanish.
> 
> Thank you for that suggestion, Matěj.  I did know about that.
> 
> Dave K.
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:10:04PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote:
> > On 2017-05-16, Matej Cepl wrote:
> > > On 16/05/17 01:42, Dave Kuhlman wrote:
> > 
> > >> 1. Images that use ":width: xx%" are scaled to the line width.
> > ...
> > 
> > >> 2. The header/title of an admonition (for example, a note) now
> > >>    follows the style of the admonition header
> > ...
> > 
> > >> 3. The unit test error that you found is fixed.
> > ...
> > 
> > Wonderfull. Thanks a lot for taking care of this.
> > 
> > >> Please let me know if we are getting closer, what else needs fixing,
> > >> etc.
> > 
> > > This works for me. As far as me I would get this let be released.
> > 
> > I second this, please commit and then it may be really time for 0.14!
> > 
> > 
> > I have one remaining question:
> > 
> > I understand, that LO/OO expects both, language and region tag of a document
> > to be set. 
> > I also understand that auto-filling the region tag is tricky.
> > 
> > What happens exactly, if in an rst2odt-exported document the language tag is
> > set but the region tag is missing:
> > 
> > a) an error/warning
> > b) the region is set to "US"
> > c) the region is set according to the users locale?
> > 
> > What should Docutils do in these cases?
> > 
> > >> By default, it was passing in "en" as the language, whereas now it
> > >> needs to be "en-US" or to be omitted.  I overrode it with "en-US".
> > 
> > Ther problem here is, that according to our specs, the default for
> > "language-code" is
> > 
> >   Default: English ("en").  Options: ``--language, -l``.
> > 
> > Unless absolutely required otherwise, I suggest passing just "en".
> > 
> > If this is not possible, the odt writer could use a different default
> > (this needs to be documented).
> > 
> > Rationale: not only Mexican and Castillean Spaniards disagree about the
> > default region tag for a language, narrowing "en" to American English 
> > must at least be documented.
> > 
> > But this may also be sorted out later.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> > 
> > Günter
> > 
> > 
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