Questions tagged [languages]
{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 type special/accented letters in LaTeX?
How to type these special letters from European languages in latex?
ä, é, and L'?
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inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX
This is with ref to my previous question Package clash in multilingual report.
\documentclass[11pt,table,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\...
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Cyrillic in (La)TeX
What are different ways to use Cyrillic in (La)TeX? What are their pros and cons?
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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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How does one type Chinese in LaTeX?
Can anyone describe how one can type Chinese in LaTeX? When I compile this:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
你好吗？
\end{document}
the resulting document shows nothing. For reference my IME ...
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What package allows Elvish in TeX?
Anyone who has read The Lord of the Rings will recognise the Elvish script at the top of this page (in the Tengwar alphabet). If this is meant to be an example of what is typesettable in TeX/related ...
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How to write Japanese with LaTeX?
I've recently started to use LaTeX but I've just encountered a problem, I tried searching it, although apparently no-one asked it before.
I'd like to write using Japanese input, but when I typeset, ...
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LaTeX Introductions in languages other than English
Inspired by What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner?, I thought that it might be useful to collect a list of the many brilliant introductory LaTeX books and tutorials written in ...
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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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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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Extend a language with additional keywords?
I'm using listings and I want to extend a language with additional keywords for highlightning. I know there is an option morekeywords available, but that only works for a particular lstset declaration ...
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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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Date format in LaTeX
I use UKenglish package. And the \date command produces the date like so: 10th October 2011. But I want just 10 October 2011; th should be omitted. How can this be done? I tried using datetime package....
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Is it possible to keep my translation together with original text?
I have an English article in LaTeX, which I'm going to translate to Russian. I want to keep my translation in sync with the original text. It means that I want every paragraph to stay as close to its ...
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Managing multiple translation of a single 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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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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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 because ...
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Bibliography style per language with biblatex/polyglossia?
This is a followup to Russian and Japanese and biblatex oh my. I've got a lot further now, using the polyglossia-enabled bib latex and writing my own Japanese csquotes and lbx files, but now I'm ...
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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
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How to write Bengali in LaTeX?
\documentclass{barticle}
\title{EkiT pRbn/dh} \author{Ajana elkhk} \date{pNNicesh {oi}bshakh, 1413}
\begin{document}
\bng
\maketitle
\section{pRthm pirec/chd}
rbiin/dRnaethr EkiT kibtar shuru inec ed{...
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Change Language in \usepackage[<language>]{babel}?
I've been trying to change the language of my LaTeX document by replacing \usepackage[swedish]{babel} with \usepackage[english]{babel} but I only get this message:
! Package babel Error: You haven't ...
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How to create multilingual (English, Japanese) bibliographies with biblatex, biber and polyglossia
I would like to update my bibtex file in a way that allows me to create multilingual bibliographies. Since I publish in English and Japanese, I will need this to work in a way that:
In an English ...
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How do I get Korean (Hangul) characters to typeset in LaTeX ?
I've been unable to find a concise answer anywhere else on the web. Since its only a few words, albeit crucial ones, that are in Korean I don't want to have to muck around with HLaTex or deviate from ...
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Specifying multiple hyphenation exception lists for multi-lingual documents
This question led to a new feature in a package:
babel
By default, (La)TeX fails at hyphenating some words, e.g., the English word potable (should be pot-able) or the German word Mor-dop-fer (...
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Getting Started to Xetex for Devangari?
I have learn LaTeX for a while. Now, I want to type Indic scripts using Tex and I found that XeTeX is the best because it supports unicode and opentype fonts. But the problem is there are not any ...
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A class with default language settings
I want to write a class which loads babel and other language aware packages and pass to all of them the option ngerman as default. But if another language is used in the options of the \documentclass ...
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Switching languages in bibliography with biblatex
I would like to have a bibliography with both Cyrillic and Latin and the main document language being English. How can I make biblatex to automatically switch between languages? (without using XeTeX ...
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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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BibTeX: citing both translation and the original
I use BibTeX, the standard bibliography style "alpha". I wish to cite an article in Russian. The work has been translated into English, and I expect the majority of the readers will want to read the ...
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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 to:
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What is the deal about these semantic vs syntactic commands?
I keep hearing people on this site talking about "semantic" vs "syntactic" commands and that the "semantic" ones are somehow better. I don't really get what they are talking about, could you explain ...
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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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Abstracts in different languages on the same page
How to place 3 abstracts (English, French and Arabic) on on the same page?
I tried to put them in a single page, but it does not work :
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[Bjornstrup]{...
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Creating resources for a currently unsupported language
I want to add support for a new language to TeX and friends. What do I need to do to achieve this?
We have had questions about Lao, Asturian, Cyrillic and Tajik, but this CW question is supposed to ...
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Localize terms in bibtex/biblatex entries
Is there a way I could localize terms in my bibtex entries?
example:
note = {to appear}
I use a bibtex file for articles in english and german and it would be nice to replace the "to appear" in ...
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Russian and Japanese and biblatex oh my
I'm trying to typeset a book with bibliography entries in English, Russian and Japanese. Getting the bibliography to work right is driving me mad. I have got pretty close (I think) by cobbling ...
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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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Is there an environment / document class for dictionaries?
Background of this question
I've got the idea of creating a math dictionary with LaTeX for quite a while now. My native language is German and I write a lot of blog articles about algorithms and a ...
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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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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 is the most appropriate way to configure biblatex for use with an unsupported language?
From time to time, I need to typeset Welsh. Sometimes, I need to typeset citations and bibliographies in Welsh. I think that last time I did this, I may still have been using BibTeX although I am ...
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How to generate the date in portuguese?
TexStudio will generate the date like "December 8, 2012", and I need it to generate in Portuguese, like "8 de Dezembro de 2012".
How can I configure that? (isodate package doesn't contain Portuguese)
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Generating multiple versions of a document using options
Before I start, I want to say that I have already read this post and this post
I am writing a paper in two languages. I want to write other language version of every paragraphs and title just below ...
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How can I translate to English a TeX document without losing compilability?
Is there any way I can translate comments and non-commands from a different language to English ?
I tried :
Google Search
https://www.google.lk/#q=translate+a+latex+code+without+losing+content
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Changing the suffix according to the figure number
In Turkish (and possibly in other similar languages), there are suffixes that change corresponding to the word they are applied. This also holds for the numbers.
For example,
in Figure \ref{fig1}
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Syntax of TeX/LaTeX
{} and [] do some kind of grouping, and comma seems to be special as well. Being a programmer I find it frustrating to use Latex on incantation-only basis. I would like to know how does it exactly ...
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How to change the language of the TeXStudio?
I just can't figure out how to change the language of the IDE itself (not for the document)?
I am using TeXStudio (v.2.6.2).
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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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New language - hyphenation
I'm working in a project (Ubuntu Manual, if you're curious) which requires TeX to create a PDF document. But when we have almost all translated, I've found that there wasn't an hyphenation pattern for ...
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LaTeX for the Lao language
Possible Duplicate:
Tajik language in LaTeX
With a friend, I would like to develop LaTeX in Lao (a language that is close to Thai). There is already a thaitex Babel set so I guess it should not ...
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