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How to write in different languages

I am writing thesis in tex for which I am using vbook package. I want to write Acknowlegdement in my mother laguage. I belong to India and I want to write it in Hindi (Indian Laguage). This must ...
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biblatex: change name of author according to language?

Usually a name stays the same in whatever language. So, whenever I quote a work by Knuth -- be it in an English article or a German one -- I will quote him as Donald E. Knuth. This is not always the ...
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Acro package: \printacronyms translation

While using acro package, I get the following message: Package translations Warning: Translation for `acronym-list-name' in portuguese unknown. on input line 67. Package translations ...
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Hyphenating words with archaic spellings

I often work with texts from the 17- to 1800s that (in addition to now obsolete words) contain familiar words in slightly different spelling. The language of these texts, and of the ones I'm writing, ...
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language in latex and in particular in biblatex [duplicate]

I write my thesis in French but some of my references are in German, English, and French. I use babel for the French but English titles are in French format! My document is this one: ...
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Change hyphenation patterns only for a chapter

I am currently writing a book in Italian using LyX and I use \usepackage[italian]{babel} in the preamble. However, I need to write a chapter of this book in a different language. How can I change ...
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LaTeX Templates in Russian

I am using LaTeX template for a thesis in English. Now I need to write my thesis in Russian using the same template. I added: \documentclass[11pt, a4paper, oneside]{Thesis} \usepackage{cmap} ...
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Clash between TIKZ and French Babel [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: tikz declare function and babel french option I'm working on a document requiring both tikz and [french]Babel. There is a clash between [french]Babel, and TIKZ: No ...
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Classicthesis in Chinese?

I wish to compile my dissertation in the beautiful classicthesis. My setting: Mac OX 10.6.8, TeX Live 2012 + LyX 2.0.5. I am able to work and produce document in Chinese elsewhere including in book, ...
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LaTeX Error: File `babelbst.tex` not found [closed]

I use a custom bst file with LyX. When I use default setting it works fine except writing everything in English and I need it to be in French. However, when I choose "babel" I get a LaTeX Error: File ...
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Punctuation in bibliography with multiple languages

In a document written in a given language (in my case French but it may not matter so much) I have a bibliography mixing entries in different languages (in this case French, English and German). I ...
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Change the word “Table” in table captions

I need to have tables with their numbers, just as when I use \caption. My problem is that when I use the \caption it shows me like this: Cuadro x.x: this is some table. The word Cuadro is ...
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Catalan language “ele geminada”

I have a document with catalan babel, and, in catalan language, it's common to use a letter called ele geminada or two lower-case L and an interpunct (·) between them. (Like "cel·la" or "pel·lícula". ...
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No space after closing double quote

As the title says, there's no spacing after my closing quotes, I have boiled my huge preamble down to the following, % Manual: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf ...
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multilang with babel problem

I've loaded babel in my .sty file like this: \RequirePackage[ukrainian,russian,english]{babel} Then at .tex or at the same .sty file I am trying to: \selectlanguage(X) \languagename ...
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! Package babel Error: Language definition file armenian.ldf not found

I'd like to use hyphenation with armenian language. Here is my test code (the armenian text is in utf8). \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{xunicode} ...
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How to install a language package in Texmaker on Ubuntu 12.04?

I'm having problems with the babel language package with TeXmaker could someone propose a fix I've typed in \usepackage[french]{babel} and I get the following error: Package babel Warning: No ...
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What's the difference between \usepackage{ngerman} and \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

Is there something additional that \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} does that a simple \usepackage{ngerman} won't be able to do?
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Change the language of a LaTeX document

Is there any way to change which language LaTeX works in? I'm writing a report in danish, but when I use \maketitle and other commands which generates some content. This content appears in english. Is ...
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What's the difference between ngerman and german in babel?

I use the following three packages to get correct German umlauts in the generated PDF: \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % this is needed for umlauts \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % this is needed for ...
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Hyphenation exceptions not loaded when using babel with multiple languages

When I use babel with more than one language loaded, my hyphenation exceptions are not used. Here is an example: ====== hy.tex ======= \hyphenation{para-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane} ====== ...
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babel with russian and english language

I need to use Russian in my article, but the default language has to be English. How do I do this? I use: \usepackage[russian]{babel} Result: all chapter names and date are in Russian. Change ...
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babel's hyphenation-friendly hyphen "= in multiple languages

Why doesn't the hyphenation work with multiple languages? See code: \documentclass[a4paper]{report} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lmodern} ...
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Problems typing in Russian (MiKTeX)

I'm trying to make a LaTeX file in Russian. I wrote the following in the preamble: \usepackage[cp1251]{inputenc} \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} \usepackage[russian]{babel} However, when I try to make ...
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LaTex i18n (integrate a new package's strings with babel)

Suppose I'm preparing LaTeX package to give the abstraction of admonition boxes (warning, error, tip, note, fyi, ...). I'd like to have theses strings internationalized. I wouldn't appreciate the ...
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Russian, Cyrillic in TeX [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Cyrillic in (La)TeX I want to add a quote in Russian to my thesis. It is pretty long, so I wouldn't like to use as input any transliteration based method, basically ...
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babel package and lstlisting caption incompatibility

I am using babel package for Turkish language and I also use listings package. A code sample for one of my listings is as follows: \begin{lstlisting}[label=some-code,caption=Poo Class] public class ...
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What is a good strategy to internationalize a document class?

I am busy with a new document class and I have been trying my hand in internationalizing some of the contents. I have tried using translator from Beamer. Is this a good strategy? Can the code shown ...
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\usepackage[turkish]{babel} and \includegraphics inconcistency

Here is my document : \documentclass[12pt]{book} % must-have packages \usepackage[turkish]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % This package will support Turkish chars % must-have packages ...
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What is the implication of the warning in the fontspec manual with respect to babel and LuaTeX?

In the fontspec manual, there is a section on LuaTeX that states: babel   The babel package is not really supported! Especially Vietnamese, Greek, and Hebrew at least might not work ...
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babel: Adding ngerman' s language shorthands to english as the main document language

The (n)german language option of the babel package provides various shorthands related to hyphenation, e.g. "-: "an explicit hyphen sign, allowing hyphenation in the rest of the word" (manual, section ...
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biblatex: Switching languages for *citations* according to the bibentry's “hyphenation” field

Quoting from section 3.1.2.1 of the biblatex manual: [The babel] option controls which language environment is used if the babel package is loaded and a bibliography entry includes a ...
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Changing babel package inside a single chapter

I have a document written in British English and I am using \usepackage[british]{babel} in the preamble; however, this same document also has an abstract written in a different language, whose ...
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babel: english, american, USenglish

Does it make any difference (and if so, which) whether I use english, american, or USenglish as the option for the babel package? I've already looked into the package description, and it seems to be ...
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Adding language to MiKTeX installation

My native language is Serbian and it is included in MiKTeX distribution for Windows. However, there is only latin version of it, and I'd like to use cyrillic Serbian. I tried searching the Internet ...
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Typesetting a document using Arabic script

I'm using TeXlive (2009-7) on Ubuntu 10.04. I've installed texlive-lang-arabic and I can't find out how should I compose the preamble to be able to use it. The babel's documentation I've found in the ...
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Babel (French) does not translate the theorem environment in Beamer class

I'm using the beamer class, with the following preamble: \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[french]{babel} \usepackage{ae,aecompl,aeguill} \usepackage{amsthm, amsmath, ...
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incompatibilities between babel[french] and KOMA-Script classes

The compilation of \documentclass{scrreprt} %or with any other KOMA-Script classes, like scrartcl %\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[french]{babel} \begin{document} test \end{document} leads to ...
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Biblatex - using two languages in one reference entry

I'm trying to learn biblatex and have small problem. according of czech style for academic writings, some fields in bibliographic record, like volume, edition or issue, should be in language of source ...
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Typography and style for acknowledgments written in different languages

My thesis is written in English, but for the acknowledgment page I think I will write a first paragraph in English, one in Italian and one in French. I was wondering if I have to do something ...
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Multilingual class/style file?

I'm writing some templates and class files that need to use some strings of text, say names for theorems, lemmas, etc., and I would like to provide the ability to easily switch the language in which ...
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No hyphenation patterns were loaded for the language

I'm using babel package for spanish language. However, each time I compile my document, the package babel throws me a warning: Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for (babel) ...