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Using amsrefs for generating a bibliography, is there a way to change the language it uses, for instance, for separating multiple authors?
Amsrefs does not seem to care about the language parameter given to babel.
I found this question asked several times on the web, but non of the answers given where satisfactory. Meaning they were saying: use bibtex or do ugly things by hand.
This is only a partial solution, but: As I commented earlier, amsrefs.pdf seems to have the words like "and" hard coded. I chased through the code a bit and found the \newcommand that defines \PrintNames@a, which has the word "and" appearing twice. I put the following immediately after the \usepackage{amsrefs} command:
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\PrintNames@a[4]{%
\PrintSeries{\name}
{#1}
{}{ und \set@othername}
{,}{ \set@othername}
{,}{ und \set@othername}
{#2}{#4}{#3}%
}
\makeatother
(that just changes each "and" to "und"), and the bibliography entries with multiple authors used "und" instead of "and".
hyphenationfield of the\bibcommand (described on page 10 of the "User's Guide to theamsrefsPackage") accomplish any of what you want?amsrefs.pdf, the technical description of amsrefs. (At least the beginning is a lot more readable than I'd expected). It looks like words like "and" are hard coded.