{languages} is about the specifics of using languages in (La)TeX documents, e.g. about switching {naming} and {hyphenation} patterns when typesetting multilingual documents. Popular packages are {babel} and {polyglossia}.

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How to change name separator in bibtex-generated bibliography to a different language

When I run BibTeX, it generates in entries with several authors something like this: Winfried Just and Martin Weese. If you write a text in a different language, I suppose it is more customary to ...
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use cyrillic non-russian language [closed]

I have a tex file: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage[cp1251]{inputenc} \usepackage[ukrainian,russian]{babel} \begin{document} \title{ Українська } \maketitle \tableofcontents ...
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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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Setting English font size in non-English documents in XeLatex

Consider a non-English document compiled in XeLatex, the standard font size is equal for all English and non-English text. How is it possible to set the size of the English text and change the font ...
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Change BibTeX's language

I am writing a document in Greek. My bibliography, however consists mainly of English entries (along with a few Greek, French and German ones). If I just add the .bib file all entries are in Greek. ...
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How to change language in the Bibliography?

My header is as follows: \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{amsmath, ...
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Polish, Russian and Greek in one file

Is there any way to use these three languages in one file? I've been trying to do this for several hours, and all I got are some cryptic errors. Could you provide me with a simplest possible working ...
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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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Is there any support for Esperanto in LaTeX?

Is Esperanto supported by LaTeX? And, if so, are there any required packages?
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Why nomenclature text is not English when loading additional languages in document class?

I have troubles in getting the right language in nomenclature. Here is a minimal example: \documentclass[english,italian]{article} \usepackage[english,refpage]{nomencl} \makenomenclature ...
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Numbers in Devanagari [closed]

First question Although the manual mentions that simple numbers would create Devanagari digits, somehow it is not working for me. The way I use it in .dn file is: {\dn || 1-23||\\} Then passing ...
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Writing a book using memoir - different language than English

I'd like to write a book using the memoir class - is it possible to change the main language of the document to something else than English, e.g. German?
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Command /k unavailable in encoding OT1. - possibly using too many languages in one document?

I'm a LaTeX newbie, so please, bear with me (also, I'm not an English native speaker, so I apologise in advance for all my grammar/spelling mistakes). I'm using LaTeX to format my translation of one ...
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how to use citation in references [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Citation in bibliography when having multiple authors I'm using bibtex for writing references with natbib package. If I use \citet command I get something like Green et ...
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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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Comparing typographic traditions for different languages

Sometimes students using LaTeX ask me how to do the typesetting of documents in French or Spanish. I'm not able to help them because I never learned to speak or write French or Spanish. Different ...
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What are good ways to make pdflatex output copy-and-pasteable?

One frequent aspect of pdflatex output that could be improved is to what extent one can select text output from the generated pdf-file and copy-and-paste it. This is essentially an issue of having the ...
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Creating multiple language versions from single latex source by fetching translation from file

I could not really find anything matching, maysome someone got an idea or a starting point: I want to maintain a collection of documents written in Kile, Using LaTeX converted by xetex into pdf ...
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Print localization strings in biblatex

I want to print all the localization strings in biblatex for a language, so I can review them in an easier way than looking at the code. How can I achieve this?
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Listings package with caption legend in spanish

I'm using the listings package and would like to translate the caption text displayed to Spanish, so instead of Listing 1: Dummy label it will display Listado 1: Dummy label. This is my code: ...
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How to use the translator package with beamer?

I'd like to have my headers like Theorem, Definition etc. in a beamer presentation translated to Polish. After skimming through the last pages of beamer user guide, I tried ...
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Where can I translate the Bergen beamer style?

I would like to use the Bergen theme with orchid color scheme. It works well, but I have "Who?" and "Where?" on my title page - I would like to translate them to my language. How could I do this the ...
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Malayalam package

Sorry if I am repeating, but I do not seem to see my post here. Does anybody know of a Malayalam language package. I am working on a Mac running Leopard.
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Elven font with TeX or LaTeX [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What package allows Elvish in TeX? It is possible to write in elven language using TeX as it is on the background of this page?
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Looking for HAML and CoffeeScript support

I need support for HAML and CoffeeScript like other languages already got with the listings package. Do you know any solutions?
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Multilingual document

Consider that you are working on a standard that should be translated into some other languages. The document structure (figures, table structures, ...) is constant among languages. Is there any ...
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BibTeX key alignment and localization

I'm having problems with my bibtex keys. According to my style guide, they should be left-aligned, whereas now they're right-aligned. Is there a way to change that? I am using amsalpha bibliography ...
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Change the font of \hyphenchar

I'm using Tex with Telugu and English languages. When a word is hyphenated, the hyphen symbol, as apparently is not found in Telugu font, appears as undefined symbol. I want to change it's font to ...
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Multilingual text with if statement

I'm working on a document in LaTeX and I would like to have multiple language versions. I could just copy everything and translate, but this would lead to multiple versions that I would have to update ...
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Translate “Algorithm” in the caption

This is my code \begin{algorithm} \caption{Funkcija ACO} \label{alg:aco} \begin{algorithmic} \STATE{do something} \end{algorithmic} \end{algorithm} it produces a caption like this ...
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Is it possible to use some sort of internationalization in LaTeX?

For example, I have one manuscript that will create a PDF file in German and one in English. My idea is that it should be used like i18n in Java, so I have a key for a text block or a sentence and a ...
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How to switch fonts when the language switches in ConTeXt?

I have a mostly English-language document, with fonts defined like this: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[MinionPro-Regular] \setsansfont[MyriadPro-Bold] Occassionally, I need to have some ...
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Change a specific label in enumerate environment

I'm using arabtex, and there is an error in the package. When using \alph as a label for enumerate, it works correctly, however it is not in Arabic alphabetical order. As you would expect for the ...
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Effect of the definition of a language for \documentclass

What exactly does \documentclass[american]{article} do with the definition of a language and in what case is it useful to define a language? What is the difference to ...
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putting a box around each line of text in a paragraph

In my environment I would like to automatically make a box around each individual line of text in a paragraph so that I can operate on each line. I think this should really be done in LaTeX rather ...
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Double anudatta marking using devanagari

Can anyone tell me as to how I will produce the above text using the "devanagari" package. My input is the following: {\dn\dnveda tat \|{sa}\_{vi}tur-vare.nya.m |} but I don't get the double || ...
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Tengwar script in TeX Live 2011

I tried to compile this example but the LaTeX compiler gives the following errors. What can I do? name = tngani, rootname = tngani, pointsize = mktexmf: empty or non-existent rootfile! Cannot find ...
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Lyx - put all text with same language

So, I have this LyX file in a language "a", and I picked a text from other file with language "b". How can I copy the text and be able to have the same language? Because now the copied text have a ...
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Figure caption and reference formatting

I'd like to format my captions of figures. The main source of the problem is in my native language, Hungarian I need to reverse the figure number and the word 'figure'. My current code: ...
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How to create multilingual (English, Japanese) and multi-format bibliographies with biblatex and biber

As a follow-up to this thread, I would like to know if it is possible to extend this further to change the citation format depending on whether kanji or romanization is selected. Japanese entries ...
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Does ConTeXt have a language code for Korean?

ConTeXt has various language codes, listed in this article at the ConTeXt wiki. I do not see Korean listed. I have tried \language[ko], and the document compiles, but I have no way to verify if it is ...
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Language sensitive italicized quotation with csquotes

In what follows: \documentclass[fontsize=11pt]{book} \usepackage{microtype} \usepackage{times} \usepackage{csquotes} \usepackage[frenchb]{babel} \frenchbsetup{IndentFirst=false} \begin{document} text ...
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Trying to typset Persian(Farsi) with MikTeX - expl3.sty not found [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Latest MiKTeX-Update broke XeLaTeX with fontspec I am a new user of LaTeX. I have installed MikTeX 2.9 and my editor is: TeXnic. Actually, I installed the xepersian ...
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Side effect of Czech package? [closed]

Since I need to show a character in Czech, I use the following: \usepackage[czech]{babel} This makes everthing looks good including the Czech character, except for the following line showing ...
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'List of theorems', translated into my language

I'm using \listoftheorems (part of the thmtools package) to show a list of all my theorems. It works really well, but it prints "List of theorems" in English; I would obviously prefer it to be in my ...
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List of abbreviations/acronyms packages for non-English languages [closed]

Is there any LaTeX package for acronyms/abbreviations that specifically targets Cyrillic (Russian/Ukrainian) users, with all that different cases (Dative, Accusative, etc.) they have in their ...
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LaTeX document in multiple languages [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to keep my translation together with original text? I am working on my resume (CV). I maintain an English and Danish version of it. Right now, this is two ...
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From LaTeX with pdflatex to plain TeX

I've always wanted to try plain TeX instead of LaTeX. I can use plain but I'm not able to use correctly the fonts and I'm not able to use the french hyphenation. I would to know how to do this with ...
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translated from <language> by <translator> in biblatex

I could not find a biblatex style showing the language of a reference from which it is translated when the translator field is used even though the fields language and orilanguage are correctly ...
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How to specify the caption names in bilingual captions without babel or polyglossia?

I use Axel Sommerfeldt's bicaption package to setup bilingual captions. bicaption needs babel's \selectlanguage to set the different caption names for different languages. However, I cannot use the ...