Latin Variants

Andrew Dunning andrew.dunning at utoronto.ca
Wed Mar 30 15:02:42 CEST 2016


> On 30 Mar 2016, at 1:50 pm, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:
> 
> A subtag “la-classlat” does not gain any benefit. A subtag dealing with specific orthographic choices could take advantage of useful tools. 

I am in fact equating ‘Classical Latin’ with the specific spelling and vocabulary of the Oxford Latin Dictionary and company. For an example of how these variants are implemented in practice, see the documentation for LaTeX at <http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/latin/latin.pdf>.

All best,

Andrew



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