Subject: Re: bug#19174: Wishlist/suggestion for emacs/lisp/calendar/cal-french.el

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:09:14 +0200

10 juni 2021 kl. 07.40 skrev Jean Forget <[email-masked]>:

> http://datetime.mongueurs.net/Histoire/tit/titre-g.en.html
> 
> When you read the pages for the additional days, you see that
> they are printed with a day number and a day-of-week name.

Thank you, that is a primary source! Of course we know little about the context: it may have been written that way for sake of a uniform presentation. However, being no scholar of the republican calendar I will leave that judgement to you.

> About lower case vs upper case: The French convention for
> Revolutionary names may be different from the French convention
> for Gregorian names. Most often, the revolutionary month names
> and day names are printed with an initial capital letter.
> Yet, there are exceptions. See the front page (link above)
> which mentions the "9 floréal an 7" with a lower case "f".

Yes, it is a fair assumption that the usage conventions were less rigid in those days, and it can have been a matter of whether the words occurred in a title or in running text. The (French) Wikipédia article uses predominantly lower case but it obviously follows modern conventions. Again, your call.

Feel free to base your changes on my previously posted diff, but give it a good read-through so that the changes are indeed exactly those that you intended. Also, we'd be happy if you wrote some tests; test/lisp/calendar/cal-french-tests.el would be a suitable place.