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@@ -945,7 +945,19 @@ as `title`, `author`, and `date`) as well as the following: : body of document `lang` -: language code for HTML or LaTeX documents +: The `lang` variable should be set by the user to a language + code according to [BCP 47] (e.g. `en` or `en-GB`). + For some output formats, pandoc will convert it to an approriate + format stored in the additional variables `babel-lang`, + `polyglossia-lang`, `polyglossia-variant` (LaTeX) + and `context-lang` (ConTeXt). + +`otherlangs` +: Should be set to a list of other languages used in the document + in the YAML metadata, according to [BCP 47]. For example: + `otherlangs: [en-GB, fr]`. + Currently only used by XeTeX through the generated + `polyglossia-otherlangs` variable. `slidy-url` : base URL for Slidy documents (defaults to @@ -3264,8 +3276,8 @@ The following fields are recognized: ~ A string value in `YYYY-MM-DD` format. (Only the year is necessary.) Pandoc will attempt to convert other common date formats. -`language` - ~ A string value in [RFC5646] format. Pandoc will default to the local +`lang` (or legacy: `language`) + ~ A string value in [BCP 47] format. Pandoc will default to the local language if nothing is specified. `subject` @@ -3549,7 +3561,7 @@ Xavier Olive. [FictionBook2]: http://www.fictionbook.org/index.php/Eng:XML_Schema_Fictionbook_2.1 [lua]: http://www.lua.org [marc relators]: http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaterm.html -[RFC5646]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646 +[BCP 47]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47 [InDesign ICML]: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/indesign/cs55-docs/IDML/idml-specification.pdf [txt2tags]: http://txt2tags.org/ [EPUB]: http://idpf.org/epub |