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From: lisplog@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de (Bernd Bachmann AG Richter)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Multilingual Adaptation of LaTeX, e.g. German
Message-ID: <4603@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Date: 7 Apr 90 17:04:29 GMT
Reply-To: lisplog@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de (Bernd Bachmann AG Richter)
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
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I would like to adapt LaTeX in order to use it simultaneously, both
for German and English. The modifications of the style files (article,
report, book) are straightforward by using variables for the keywords
'abstract', 'contents', etc. and then setting these variables in the
corresponding style files or overwriting them in the 'german.sty'
file. The only problem occurs with hyphenations. They are included
while building a LaTeX format file with 'initex'. I would like to use
only one format file for the English and German style.

Is there an appropriate way to modify the file 'lplain.tex' and build
a new format file so one can switch between German and English
hyphenations at 'run time' just by setting a variable in the
'german.sty' file, which defines also several other features of the
German language ?

Please, e-mail and I will post a summary to the net.

- Bernd Bachmann <lisplog@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>