languages
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 multilingual documents production?
Is it possible to use a gettex-like method in (la)tex?
I am not able to provide a perfect solution, but I would use a \fullcite in the addendum field. In order to suppress the translation in the bibliography (so that it does not appear twice), you could use options = {skipbib=true}, if that is desired. Here is a MWE (note that you have to run biber (or BibTeX) twice, since the \fullcite can only be resolved in the second run):
\documentclass[english]{scrartcl}
\listfiles
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{G-L1950,
author = {Ginzburg, V. L. and Landau, L. D.},
title = {A title},
journaltitle = {Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz.},
date = {1950},
volume = {20},
pages = {1064},
addendum = {English translation: \fullcite[546]{L1965}}
}
@book{L1965,
author = {Landau, L. D.},
title = {Collected Papers},
location = {Oxford},
publisher = {Pergamon Press},
date = {1965},
options = {skipbib=true}
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel,csquotes}
\usepackage[
style=numeric-comp,
backend=biber
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{G-L1950}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
The hyphenrules environment just changes the language; moreover \hyphenation commands are always global and refer to the current language, so this is the best strategy
\documentclass[draft]{article}
\usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel}
\hyphenation{pot-able}
\begin{hyphenrules}{ngerman}
\hyphenation{mord-op-fer}
\end{hyphenrules}
\begin{document}
...
\end{document}
You can also, for greater clarity, insert the first \hyphenation command in a proper hyphenrules environment.
A useful addition to babel might be the following
\makeatletter
\let\@@hyphenation\hyphenation
\renewcommand{\hyphenation}[2][\languagename]{%
\begingroup
\@ifundefined{l@#1}
{\@nolanerr{#1}}
{\bbl@patterns{#1}%
\languageshorthands{none}%
\@@hyphenation{#2}}%
\endgroup
}
\makeatother
so that the previous input could become
\hyphenation{pot-able} % or \hyphenation[english]{pot-able}
\hyphenation[ngerman]{mord-op-fer}
Best Answer
There is another way to support internationalization within your LaTeX documents. For instance, below is the support for english and german languages I made some time ago:
Next, if you need you can define different commands for months, date formats, etc:
Finally, in text you can write something like this:
After all, when you've created the whole document you can simple switch between languages setting in the document preamble either
\entrueor\detrue. All this allows you to keep multilingual texts up-to-dated near each other.