localization of toc-title and "figure" not working

[nylki]

Although I have set mainlang=german (or ngerman), the table of contents still renders as Contents instead of Inhaltsverzeichnis
Same for figures (figure instead of Abbildung)
I am using xelatex as latex engine. Is there anything I am missing?
Can I overwrite the strings in the template if it doesn't work natively?

thanks! :)

[jgm]

+++ Tom Brewe [Nov 15 14 10:34 ]:

Although I have set mainlang=german (or ngerman), the table of contents still renders as Contents instead of Inhaltsverzeichnis
Same for figures (figure instead of Abbildung)
I am using xelatex as latex engine. Is there anything I am missing?
Can I overwrite the strings in the template if it doesn't work natively?

There is nothing in the template that says "Contents" -- that is
generated by xelatex itself. This seems to be a LaTeX issue; I am
not sure what is going on. (I assume you're using an up-to-date
version of pandoc?)

Try creating a simple latex file (pandoc -s -t latex -o my.tex --toc)
and then compiling it manually with xelatex. If the latex looks right
to you, and the answer isn't revealed by xelatex's error log, then
you might try on tex stack exchange.

[ousia]

Titles in other languages than English are translated by the babel package.

From default.latex:

\ifxetex
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{$mainlang$}
\else
\usepackage[shorthands=off,$lang$]{babel}
\fi

I think this is the reason why label localization doesn’t work with XeLaTeX.

BTW, @jgm, could you take a look at #1755?

[nylki]

I am using the version in the fedora repository, pandoc 1.12.3.3.
I just tested to export a simple markdown file as .tex and then compiling with pdflatex and xelatex manually. I think the issue was using -V mainlang=german instead of -V lang=german.
It works now, i think I changed to sometime to mainlang because lang wasn't working for other reasons. However I am closing this. thx for your help anyways!

[ousia]

@nylki, my fault. I mixed packages.

But the weird thing is that \setmainlanguage for polyglossia seems to be defined by $mainlang, not by $lang. And this was changed long time ago (in 2012).

[jgm]

+++ Pablo Rodríguez [Nov 16 14 04:41 ]:

@nylki, my fault. I mixed packages.

But the weird thing is that \setmainlanguage for polyglossia seems to be defined by $mainlang, not by $lang. And this was changed long time ago (in 2012).

This is strange indeed. I wonder if he's using a custom template,
perhaps without realizing it (if it's in ~/.pandoc/templates)?

[vladipus]

I still don't get it. How should Contents and Figures be localized when using --latex-engine=xelatex ?

[jgm]

@vladipus try setting lang: fr-FR or whatever language you want (use the standard codes) in your document's metadata. Pandoc has switched over to using standard language codes since this issue was last commented.

[nylki]

@vladipus to complement @jgm's comment, you would set the lang via -V, for example:
pandoc --latex-engine=xelatex yourfile.md -o yourfile.pdf -V lang=de --toc

[vladipus]

Seems like this thingy is also mandatory for Cyrillics to work: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc-templates/pull/198