#### 8.9.3 Specifying language-specific text values

All configuration sections in DITA2Go language files have names that end in Text. This suffix is required for reference by the Configuration Manager.

Text settings depend on format component names

Many of the settings in language configuration files assign text to the name of a format component. If you use format component names that are different from those specified in the language configuration templates, you must assign each of your preferred names to the corresponding DITA2Go format component name; see §8.1.3 Assigning additional names to format components.

Several sections in the language configuration files provide text for the <name/> building block of the format-component form property. For example:

    [RuninHeadText]
    NoteHead = Note:
    AttentionHead = Attention:
    CautionHead = Caution:

See §8.6 Configuring run-in headings for text formats.

One language configuration section contains typographic and other miscellaneous text assignments:

    [ElementText]
    ; Quotes = left double, right double, left single, and right single,
    ; in a space-delimited list, for <q> element, nested alternately.
    Quotes = “ ” ‘ ’
    ; CascadeSeparator = text to use beteen items in <menucascade>
    CascadeSeparator = \~|\~

Quotes specifies the delimiters to be used around text converted from <q> elements; see §8.1.5 Including typographic tags and character formats.

CascadeSeparator specifies the separator character(s) to be inserted between items converted from <uicontrol> elements; the default is “ | ”, a vertical bar with a space on either side. The separator does not appear if the <uicontrol> elements are not in a <menucascade>. However, it does appear for any elements derived from those two.

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8.9.1 Specifying an output language for your project

8.9.2 Overriding language settings

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