General ⇒ Multiple Languages In Titles, Paragraphs, Bookmarks

[ld_pvl]

Hello,

Is it possible to type two or more different languages in titles and paragraphs? I have tried using the babel package but it's useful only to define parts of individual languages and not multiple languages:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,vietnam,russian]{babel}

\begin{document}
%\selectlanguage{english}
%\selectlanguage{russian}

\section{This is a Документ}
%\selectlanguage{vietnam}
Hôm qua em đi chơi ở Hotel Plaza.
\end{document}

I also have a problem with having bookmarks appear correctly for utf-8 char sets. I use the hyperref package to create hyperlinks as shown below, however, though the unicode option is already set to false (to have non-unicode bookmarks), chapter\section titles in say Russian wouldn't even appear.

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\usepackage[
   pdftex,
   pdftitle={A Title},
   pdfauthor={Me},
   pdfsubject={Testing},
   pdfkeywords={test},
   pdfpagemode=UseOutlines,
   bookmarks=false,
   bookmarksopen,
   pdfstartview=FitH,
   colorlinks,
   linkcolor=blue,
   citecolor=blue,
   urlcolor=red,
]
{hyperref}

Many thanks for your help,
LD

[ld_pvl]

Hi again,

I found a solution to the bookmarking problem. For some unsupported languages one might have to download the puenc.def file for the hyperref packages for that specific language and replace the existing one. However, if the unicode option is set to true, that should work for most popular languages. The babel package also allows having different parts of languages in a paragraph using the following:

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\selectlanguage{language}
\begin{otherlanguage}{language} text \end{otherlanguage}
\begin{otherlanguage*}{language} text \end{otherlanguage*}
\foreignlanguage{language}{text}
\iflanguage{language}{yes text}{no text}

It's still a mystery how I can include words from different languages in one section/chapter title though. Doing some research at the moment, hopefully will come back with an answer.

[ld_pvl]

Using XeTeX should solve the problem apparently.

[localghost]

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Thorsten