[tex-live] [XeTeX] XeTeX/TeX Live : Setting the default language

[Khaled Hosny]

\input Lorem Ipsum
\bye

Does not work here.

Regards,
 Khaled

On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 12:16:35AM +1100, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
> what change does that make if one uses Lorem Ipsum... instead knuth.tex?
> 
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:21:41AM +0000, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>     >
>     > >except phil doesn't use latex, so can't use polyglossia.
>     >
>     > True.  But Khaled Hosny's solution was perfect:
>     >
>     > >\input knuth
>     > >\uselanguage{british} % or ukenglish or UKenglish, all synonyms
>     > >\input knuth
>     > >\bye
>     >
>     > once I realised that "\input Knuth" was neither required
>     > nor productive !
> 
>     Sorry, that was a bit of ConTeXtish habit of using knuth.tex as a test
>     and I thought it is obvious (now I realise that it is even part of
>     ConTeXt and you might not even have it unless you installed ConTeXt).
> 
>     Regards,
>      Khaled
> 
>