Re: Provide style file for babel support for Brazilian

[Gustavo Barros]

Hi Arash,

On Mon, 03 May 2021 at 06:51, Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> wrote:

> I now have for styles: Main styles "brazilian.el" and "portuguese.el",
> and "brazil.el" and "portuges.el" which just run one of the former
> ones.  I think with this setup things should work out.

A small follow-up/polishing report on these style files.

"brazilian.el" and "portuguese.el" add symbols for four convenience 
macros which are defined by `babel' in `portuges.ldf', namely `\ord', 
`\orda', `\ro' and `\ra'.  While I had correctly reported they do not 
receive arguments, I started playing with them now (the style files made 
me remember they exist), and they do however gobble the following space. 
Hence they should be inserted with trailing empty braces, or `nil' 
argument in `TeX-add-symbols'.

A comment on this though.  I'm not sure how important this is, or if 
these commands should be simply considered as outdated, since these 
macros are defined as:

#+begin_src latex
\def\ord{$^{\rm o}$}
\def\orda{$^{\rm a}$}
\let\ro\ord\let\ra\orda
#+end_src

Koma-script literally does not let me use it, throwing me a "Class 
scrbook Error: undefined old font command `\rm'." (short of 
`enabledeprecatedfontcommands', which these macros are not worth, of 
course).  If it had let me, I'd still get a due warning from `nag'.

In light of this, do you think these macros should be even kept in the 
style files?

Best regards,
Gustavo.