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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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 facility/technique/strategy/package to streamline…
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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 be general non-specific advice about adding…
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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…
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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 be that difficult. But I am a total novice in…
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Typesetting any language, Vietnamese for example

I have this document which contains Vietnamese characters, and it doesn't compile correctly: \documentclass[letterpaper]{article} \usepackage[vietnam]{babel} \begin{document} Ðàn con chung một trái tim \end{document} The characters come out…
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I want to write a LaTeX document in Yiddish

I'm trying to find Yiddish support in LaTeX. There's the Makor2 package, which has an elegant solution, but it depends on Omega and Lambda, which are discontinued. Is there any easy way to write in Yiddish (not Hebrew) using a package contained in…
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How to prevent LaTeX from turning "a to an umlaut in German?

I want to input a string "a" in a LaTeX document using German (\documentclass[ngerman]{article}), but I do not want "a to be turned into ä; what can I do? (I know \verb works; are there any other solutions?) Thanks!
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Set language only for some sentences

I'm working in a document with these…
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Can I write in "begin{}" something in greek?

I want to write in latex a text at which there are some lemmas. So we could use the command \begin{Lemma} ... \end{Lemma} right?? Could we write instead of "Lemma" something in greek?? When I write \begin{\textgreek{Λήμμα}} …
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How to type Hindi words in LaTeX

I am writing a thesis and have to write some Hindi words using LaTeX. When I use \usepackage{devanagari} removed. For example: {\dn school} the output generated is I want output to be like this: स्कूल
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How to include russian in LaTeX (LEd)?

How to include russian in LaTeX (LEd) ? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} \usepackage[russian]{babel} \begin{document} Hello \end{document} ! Package babel /b/c9/cError:/b/c0/c You haven't loaded the option english yet. See…
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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 language file for each language. For…
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iflang Warning: Mismatch between \language (patterns) and and setting of \languagename

I am currently writing a class and there I need to test the current language. Therefore I use the package iflang. A strange warning pops up when I change the default language,…
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Creating a Korean to English Dictionary

What package would be best for creating a multilingual dictionary? The glossaries package doesn't seem to work very well with Korean.
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Quotes in a different language (Russian)

Tex prints question marks instead of the russian text that I want it to print. Help? \usepackage[russian,english]{babel} \usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} ... \title{ \selectlanguage{russian} Успех в…
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