[publican-list] RFC: Make -langs=en-US the default language for command line args

[Jared Morgan]

I've seen a number of emails flying around that show some nice aliases for publican commands. I know many people have implemented their own aliases to quickly execute basic en-US book builds. 

When we build a book, I would imagine most people would want to publish en-US versions initially. So why don't we set this as the default language in command-line arguments, rather than having to specify it each time? 

So instead of executing "publican build -langs=en-US -formats html", it would simply be "publican build -formats html". 

For those users who need to generate language-specific versions, they could override the default by specifying the --langs option when they execute their publish command. 

There might be other ways we can shorten what users need to type as well. How about a "-formats online" option which generates html, and html-single (possibly even ePub). 

Thoughts? 

Cheers 

Jared Morgan 
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