General ⇒ LaTeX document in different languages

[Moreno71]

I wonder if there's a way to keep a single LaTeX document in different languages in such a way that the output document could be generated in the desired language, instead of keeping several documents in parallel.
Any ideas?

[PGScooter]

Hi Moreno71,

I remember seeing a similar thread a few months ago. I'm not sure what the best solution was, but I will give my proposal again:

Say you want to have English and Spanish, then make a new command:

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\newcommand{\mylanguage}[2]{#1}

and where you want to have two versions, do this:

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\mylanguage{This is my text in English}{y esto la version en espanol}

as is, this code will produce the English version. To produce the Spanish version, you just have to replace the #1 with a #2.

Note that I was not able to test this code, I hope it's right.

[Moreno71]

Perhaps you were referring to this thread: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... 039&p=7944?
If so, it seems that they didn't find a proper solution.

Anyway, your idea looks like a simple and clever solution. I'll give it a try.

Thanks a lot.

[PGScooter]

great, please post back with your comments or if you find a way that you like better. I would be interested in hearing about the particular problems that come up. This must be a somewhat common endeavor. I am guessing that if there is no dedicated module, then perhaps it really is just a simple solution. I guess you'll have to let us know.