feat: add language switcher for multilingual site support (#374)

* feat: add language switcher for multilingual site support

Add a hosting-agnostic language switcher to the theme toolbar that allows
users to switch between translated versions of lecture sites.

Theme changes:
- New theme options: languages (list) and current_language (string)
- Globe icon dropdown at far right of toolbar (after GitHub icon)
- hreflang link tags in head for SEO
- Dark theme and RTL-aware styling
- Keyboard accessible (Escape to close, click-outside-to-close)
- Only renders when 2+ languages configured (backwards compatible)

Documentation:
- Updated docs/developer/multilingual.md with implementation docs
- New docs/developer/infrastructure.md for hosting guidance
- Updated PLAN_MULTILINGUAL_SUPPORT.md (theme-focused)
- New PLAN-INFRASTRUCTURE.md (hosting/DNS concerns)

Files added:
- src/quantecon_book_theme/assets/scripts/language-switcher.js
- src/quantecon_book_theme/assets/styles/_language-switcher.scss
- docs/developer/infrastructure.md
- PLAN-INFRASTRUCTURE.md

* chore: remove completed PLAN documents

All content has been implemented in code and documented in
docs/developer/multilingual.md and docs/developer/infrastructure.md.

* fix: address Copilot review feedback and add test coverage

- Validate language entries (require code, name, url fields)
- Normalize URLs by stripping trailing slashes
- Extract _process_languages() for testability
- Fix ARIA roles: role=menuitem on <a>, role=none on <li>
- Fix theme.conf defaults: languages = [] for type consistency
- Fix broken reference to deleted PLAN-INFRASTRUCTURE.md
- Add 10 unit tests for language processing (test_language_switcher.py)

* fix: remove unused pytest import (flake8 F401)

* Rename lecture-python-programming.myst to lecture-python-programming

Update all references to the renamed repository across CI workflows,
tox configuration, Playwright config, documentation, and .gitignore.

* UPDATE: Regenerate all visual snapshots (1 files)

* Increase toolbar visual test tolerance to 0.03

The toolbar screenshot on mobile has minor pixel-level rendering
variability with the language switcher, causing flaky failures at
the default 0.01 threshold.

* Fix language switcher dropdown opening off-screen

The dropdown was positioned above the toolbar (bottom: 100%) which
caused it to open off-screen since the toolbar is at the top of the
page. Changed to open below (top: 100%) with arrow pointing up and
right-aligned to stay within the viewport.

* Remove dir=rtl from language switcher menu items

Language names in the dropdown should be consistently left-aligned
regardless of the target language's text direction. The dir attribute
is for content blocks, not navigation labels.

* Add language switcher and repo rename to CHANGELOG

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Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: mmcky

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -10,18 +10,18 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
-      - name: Fetch lecture-python-programming.myst
+      - name: Fetch lecture-python-programming
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
-          git clone --branch quantecon-book-theme https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.myst
+          git clone --branch quantecon-book-theme https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming
       - name: Setup Anaconda
         uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
         with:
           auto-update-conda: true
           auto-activate-base: true
           miniconda-version: 'latest'
           python-version: "3.13"
-          environment-file: lecture-python-programming.myst/environment.yml
+          environment-file: lecture-python-programming/environment.yml
           activate-environment: lecture-python-programming
       - name: Install quantecon-book-theme
         shell: bash -l {0}
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build HTML
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
-          cd lecture-python-programming.myst
+          cd lecture-python-programming
           jb build lectures --path-output ./
 
       # Visual Regression Testing
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
         run: npm run test:visual
         continue-on-error: true
         env:
-          SITE_PATH: lecture-python-programming.myst/_build/html
+          SITE_PATH: lecture-python-programming/_build/html
       - name: Upload Playwright Report
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         if: always()
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Preview Deploy to Netlify
         uses: nwtgck/actions-netlify@v3.0
         with:
-          publish-dir: 'lecture-python-programming.myst/_build/html/'
+          publish-dir: 'lecture-python-programming/_build/html/'
           production-branch: main
           github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           deploy-message: "Preview Deploy from GitHub Actions"

.github/workflows/update-snapshots.yml

@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ jobs:
           ref: ${{ steps.pr.outputs.ref }}
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
-      - name: Fetch lecture-python-programming.myst
+      - name: Fetch lecture-python-programming
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
-          git clone --branch quantecon-book-theme https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.myst
+          git clone --branch quantecon-book-theme https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming
 
       - name: Setup Anaconda
         uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
           auto-activate-base: true
           miniconda-version: 'latest'
           python-version: "3.13"
-          environment-file: lecture-python-programming.myst/environment.yml
+          environment-file: lecture-python-programming/environment.yml
           activate-environment: lecture-python-programming
 
       - name: Install quantecon-book-theme
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build HTML
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
-          cd lecture-python-programming.myst
+          cd lecture-python-programming
           jb build lectures --path-output ./
 
       - name: Setup Node.js
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ jobs:
         continue-on-error: true
         run: npx playwright test --update-snapshots=missing
         env:
-          SITE_PATH: lecture-python-programming.myst/_build/html
+          SITE_PATH: lecture-python-programming/_build/html
 
       - name: Commit and Push Updated Snapshots
         run: |
@@ -140,10 +140,10 @@ jobs:
           ref: ${{ steps.pr.outputs.ref }}
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
-      - name: Fetch lecture-python-programming.myst
+      - name: Fetch lecture-python-programming
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
-          git clone --branch quantecon-book-theme https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.myst
+          git clone --branch quantecon-book-theme https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming
 
       - name: Setup Anaconda
         uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ jobs:
           auto-activate-base: true
           miniconda-version: 'latest'
           python-version: "3.13"
-          environment-file: lecture-python-programming.myst/environment.yml
+          environment-file: lecture-python-programming/environment.yml
           activate-environment: lecture-python-programming
 
       - name: Install quantecon-book-theme
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build HTML
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
-          cd lecture-python-programming.myst
+          cd lecture-python-programming
           jb build lectures --path-output ./
 
       - name: Setup Node.js
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ jobs:
         continue-on-error: true
         run: npx playwright test --update-snapshots
         env:
-          SITE_PATH: lecture-python-programming.myst/_build/html
+          SITE_PATH: lecture-python-programming/_build/html
 
       - name: Upload Old vs New Diff
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7

.gitignore

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ playwright-report/
 test-results/
 
 # Visual test lecture site (cloned by tox -e visual)
-lecture-python-programming.myst/
+lecture-python-programming/
 
 # macOS visual test snapshots (tox uses macos/ dir, CI uses __snapshots__/)
 tests/visual/macos/

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+- **Language switcher for multilingual site support** (#374) — a globe icon dropdown in the bottom toolbar that enables users to switch between translated versions of a lecture site. Only renders when 2+ languages are configured via `html_theme_options`. Includes keyboard navigation, click-outside-to-close, and dark mode support.
+- **SEO hreflang tags** (#374) — automatically injects `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="...">` meta tags in `<head>` for all configured languages, improving search engine discovery of translated content.
+- **Multilingual infrastructure documentation** (#374) — new developer guide at `docs/developer/infrastructure.md` covering three hosting options (GitHub Pages, subdomains, reverse proxy) for deploying translated lecture sites.
+
+### Changed
+- **Renamed `lecture-python-programming.myst` to `lecture-python-programming`** (#374) — updated all CI workflows, tox config, Playwright config, and documentation to reflect the renamed test repository.
+
 ## [0.19.0] - 2026-03-08
 
 ### Changed