The multilang Package

Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Richard Grewe

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.2 or later

Abstract

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.

Availability

The multilang package is on CTAN, where you can also find the documentation, as well as on github.

Manual Installation

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.

Building Documentation

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