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From: lang@pearl.PRC.Unisys.COM (Francois-Michel Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: LaTeX "References" title in Portuguese (or other languages)
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Date: 20 Dec 88 14:54:47 GMT
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In article <6@mozart.UUCP> rosalia@mozart.UUCP (Mark Galassi) writes:
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>A friend of mine was typing a paper in Portuguese using LaTeX, and only
>noticed after handing it in that when she did \begin{thebibliography},
>it gave the References title (section title of the bibliography) in
>english!!  Does anyone know how to specify that the title be in another
>language?  Thank you very much.

This is taken from article.sty:
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\def\thebibliography#1{\section*{References\@mkboth
 {REFERENCES}{REFERENCES}}\list
 {[\arabic{enumi}]}{\settowidth\labelwidth{[#1]}\leftmargin\labelwidth
 \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
 \usecounter{enumi}}
 \def\newblock{\hskip .11em plus .33em minus -.07em}
 \sloppy\clubpenalty4000\widowpenalty4000
 \sfcode`\.=1000\relax}
\let\endthebibliography=\endlist
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You should make a copy of the file, call it, say, portuguese.sty,
change "references" and "REFERENCES" to whatever you want it to be,
and use \documentstyle{portuguese} instead of, e.g., \documentstyle{article}.
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Francois-Michel Lang
Paoli Research Center, Unisys Corporation lang@prc.unisys.com (215) 648-7256
Dept of Comp & Info Science, U of PA      lang@cis.upenn.edu  (215) 898-9511