General ⇒ Changing the language of BibTeX

[meklenborg]

I use BibTeX for my bibliography (which is great), but I want the bibliography to turn out in French. My document settings are French, but the bibliography comes out in English. I need the bibliography to say that "X et Y" wrote an article (not "X and Y"), I need the bibliography to reflect the édition, not the edition and so on. Does anybody know what to do to change the BibTeX settings? I don't find it while googling the net.

Thanx

Christine

[balf]

Pour utiliser un des styles usuels de bibliographie en version française, il y a l'extension bib-fr. Sinon il y a babel-bib (que je n'ai jamais utilisé), qui permet des bibliographies multilingues, semble-t-il.

B.A.

[meklenborg]

Voilà! Parfait! Merci beaucoup!

c

[localghost]

Pour utiliser un des styles usuels de bibliographie en version française, il y a l'extension bib-fr. Sinon il y a babel-bib (que je n'ai jamais utilisé), qui permet des bibliographies multilingues, semble-t-il.

B.A.

It would be very nice if you could add an english version to your reply. My French is not good enough to understand that completely. I guess in such cases it might be good to give a bilingual answer (provided that you can see the country of the requesting user). I already did that here in some posts with German and English.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Stefanie]

Pour utiliser un des styles usuels de bibliographie en version française, il y a l'extension bib-fr. Sinon il y a babel-bib (que je n'ai jamais utilisé), qui permet des bibliographies multilingues, semble-t-il.

B.A.

Translation: "To use one of the common bibliography styles in french, there is the extension "bib-fr". Otherwise there is "babel-bib" (which I have never used), which allows multilingual bibliographies, apparently."

I think you can also solve the problem by creating your own bibliography style using custom-bib.

Je crois qu'on peut résoudre le problème en utilisant custom-bib, qui permet de créer son propre style de bibliographie.

[balf]

@Thorsten: I'm quite sorry; I stupidly thought the question and my answer were useful only to people using mostly the french language, but of course it could be useful for other languages as well.

Let me also point out the experimental package biblatex which is natively multilingual (and has many more functionalities).

B.A.