Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Richard Grewe
Released under the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.2 or later
Maintaining a LaTeX document with translations for multiple languages
can be cumbersome and error-prone.
The multilang package provides a set of macros for defining macros and
environments as wrappers around existing macros and environments.
These wrappers allow one to clearly specify multiple translations for the
arguments to the wrapped macros and environments while only the
translation of the document's language is actually shown.
Choosing a translation then is as simple as choosing the document's
language via babel or polyglossia.
The multilang package is on CTAN,
where you can also find the documentation,
as well as on github.
The multilang package comes with (at least) the following files
- multilang.ins
- multilang.dtx
- README.md
and possibly also with
- Makefile
- multilang.pdf (generated from multilang.dtx)
- multilang.sty (generated from multilang.dtx)
To install the multilang package, you additionally need
- docstrip.tex
To build the package (multilang.sty), run one of the following
latex multilang.ins
make package (needs Makefile)
Put the resulting multilang.sty somewhere where LaTeX can find it.
Read the documentation of your LaTeX system to find out where this
might be.
To build the documentation of the multilang package, you additionally
need the following classes and packages (including their dependencies)
- ltxdoc
- babel
- cleveref
- csquotes
- datetime2
- enumitem
- environ
- etoolbox
- hypdoc
- idxlayout
- pbox
- pgfkeys
- pgfopts
- sectionbox
- showexpl
- translations
- xcolor
- xspace
as well as
- pdflatex
To build the documentation (multilang.pdf), either run
make docs
or the following sequence of commands
pdflatex multilang.dtx
makeindex -s gind.ist -o multilang.ind multilang.idx
makeindex -s gglo.ist -o multilang.gls multilang.glo
pdflatex multilang.dtx
pdflatex multilang.dtx
Happy TeX'ing