General ⇒ Language packages

[ahaub06]

Hi.

My girlfriend is writing her postgraduate paper as we speak, but unfortunatelt she encountered a problem with WinEdt / MikTex - and I promised to help, and now I've been searching the web with no luck. However, I have no experience with WinEdt / LaTex / MikTex and all that.

The problem is, that the entire time when she have been using it, she have been giving the command: usepackage>danish (or something like that), because her papers were in danish.

Now though, her postgraduate paper should be in english, and she needs to change the language back from danish to english again. I reckon that english ought to be a default language package to come with MikTex, but still, I don't have a clue of, how to change it, so the document upon textification should write chapter instead of "Kapitel", etc.

I really hope that somebody out here can help us?? (btw: she writes in WinEdt 5.5 using MikTex 2.7 as the package)

//Anders, Denmark

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Anders,

welcome to the board!
You could use babel:

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\usepackage[english]{babel}

Stefan

[ahaub06]

Hi Stefan

Thank you very much - and thanks for the quick answer!

Babel? Is that a standard package, or do I have to install it from somewhere?

/Anders

[localghost]

[...] Babel? Is that a standard package, or do I have to install it from somewhere? [...]

The babel package is part of every LaTeX distribution and can be installed with the MiKTeX package manager. But MiKTeX is able to install it "on the fly" when running a compiler on the source. babel belongs to a Basic MiKTeX installation and should already be installed on the system. Just try a compilation process using the suggestion of Stefan and see what's going on. In case of occurring problems, feel free to ask.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[Stefan Kottwitz]

babel is a standard package, I'm pretty sure that it's already installed on your system. It comes with language definition files, for instance english.ldf, that will be loaded by the english option, those files contain some translations.

Stefan

[ahaub06]

Okay. Thank you very much for your answers.

We will try the code suggested by Stefan. Thanks again

Anders