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Documents in a Foreign Language

LATEX is very useful for writing documents in a foreign language. LATEX can theoretically support any language.20 However, in reality, there is hyphenation support for only a few dozen. The standard version of LATEX supports the English language, and it can hyphenate most English words correctly. SIPB has a version of LATEX which can hyphenate a document written in German, and we are working on getting French and Spanish versions. The English version can be used to produce foreign language documents, but be warned that hyphenation will be according to rules of the English language.



 

Alex Rolfe
1999-10-29