Things that still need to be done (2001/02/22) :
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- Vladimir Volovich suggested to have a babel option mechanism.
This may be implemented using something like:
\languageoption[, ,...]{}
(See PR 2814)
- The language attribute mechanism is not completely mature yet. It is
currently not possible to switch attibutes on and off in the middle
of a document. This restriction might be lifted in a future release.
- I started work on support for hyphenation patterns depending on
the encoding. So far this only works when loading the pattern file.
The encoding information isn't then subsequently stored as an
attribute for that hyphenation register.
- An interface is needed to be able to change the definition of
things like \figurename and keep the change over language
switches. (PR3291)
- Jean-François Mertens has developped a fully
expandable way of `sanitizing' active characters. It needs thorough
testing by a larger number of users before it could be included in
the ditribution.
- A contribution has been made for romanian support by
Raider . It isn't yet included in babel 3.7 but
might be added later on.
- A suggestion has been made by Ole Laursen to
make the comma active to be used as decimal delimiter instead of the
dot. This could be provided as an option as more European languages
need the comma for that purpose.
- PRs 3067, 3235, 3236, 3270 report that shorthand characters can have
adverse effect when loading PostScript files or passing literal
PostScript through a \special command. I haven't found a good
solution yet.