Re: [Docutils-users] Role for different human language?

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

Ahoj Matěj,

On 2020-02-23, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> On 2020-02-23, 16:23 GMT, Guenter Milde via Docutils-users wrote:
>> There is a method for defining the language of text parts: The 
>> HTML and LaTeX writers convert a "class" argument starting 
>> with ``language-`` in a language argument with the remainder,

> It really works for HTML5 and LaTeX, but unfortunately it 
> doesn’t for ODT.

This is a convention used in the HTML and LaTeX writers (the two I
regularely work with and on).

...

> I was trying a bug for this at 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/bugs, but I couldn’t find 
> anything. And I know, unsupported magical feature means it is 
> unsupported, but still it would be lovely to have the ODT 
> generator following the suite. Do you know whether there is such 
> bug?

I don't think it is a *bug*: The documentation says that class arguments
may be ignored by some writers.

I recommend filing an `enhancement request`__.

Thanks,
Günter

__ https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/feature-requests/66/