Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ spanish configuration

[smallperalta]

Hi!
Is it possible to use the masters-doctoral-thesis template in spanish?

I know its only english/german, but is there a way around it so i can use it in spanish? Any files where i could replace the words "author" with "autor", "supervisor" with "director", "chapter" with "capítulo" and so on....

Regards,
Stan.

[Johannes_B]

Hi there, the template can be used with other languages as well, right now it just fires a stupid error message. This will be gone with the next release.

You can check all occurences one at the time, or look in the class file where the different names are preset. It would be cool if you could provide the spanish names for other users here in this thread.

For further reference, please have a look at the answer i gave yesterday.

[smallperalta]

Hi.
I have stumbled upon a series of obstacles:
Is spanish an available language?

I tried "ngerman" as language while defining documentclass (so to repeat the process shown in the earlier thread) and got this:

Package babel Error: You haven't specified a language option ...ry to proceed from here, type x to quit

Was this the error message you mentioned?


How could I do the modification of the different names? You mentioned the MasterThesisDoctoral.cls, but i'm not quite sure how to.

I could provide a list of translated words too.

I'm running Kile on Lubuntu 14.04 in an intel dual core T4300@2GHz, and 2GB of memory.

Regards,
Stan

[Johannes_B]

hi,

Package babel Error: You haven't specified a language option

This is the normal behaviour. When you change the language, a bit is still in a helper file and LaTeX gets confused. Just let happen or remove the helper file (aux) because it is re-generated every run. Nothing to worry here. That is just how LaTeX works, not the template.

Not checked the other thread, it's late, but if you could supply the missing names for spanish, that would be great.

Edit: the error message i mentioned is due to my not-thinking, the error message you mention is standard LaTeX. It is easy to confuse a human, as well as a computer program. Luckily, there are arror messages

[smallperalta]

Hi,
well, I was able to change some stuff in the .cls file, such as the Declaration of Authorship and similar "extra" stuff, but I'm not sure how to change. I'll list the translations for the different words in order here:

"Abstract" by "Resumen"
"by" by "por"
"Acknowledgements" by "Agradecimientos"
"Contents" by "Indice"
"List of Figures" by "Indice de Figuras"
"List of Abbreviations" by "Lista de Abreviaciones"
"Physical Constants" by "Constantes Físicas" (which is encoded f\'isica, as far as I know).

[Johannes_B]

There is no need to tangle the class file at all, the template was designed that way. All you need to do, is add the language strings that are yet unknown:

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\newcaptionname{italian}{\acknowledgementname}{Ringraziamenti}
\newcaptionname{italian}{\authorshipname}{Title of that page}
\newcaptionname{italian}{\abbrevname}{Elenco delle abbreviazioni}

that's copy and pasted from the earlier answer i linked above. In your case, you need to substitute italian with spanish (or the dialiect you passed as global option):

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\newcaptionname{spanish}{\acknowledgementname}{Agradecimientos}
\newcaptionname{spanish}{\byname}{por}

There is even another anwer explaining what to do: Add one more abstract.

Can you explain in more detail what you have tried?

[smallperalta]

Ok, I got a way around it. I was just having some trouble with the babel package. Luckily there are arror messages! It worked both ways but I chose to use

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\providecaptionname{spanish}{\acknowledgementname}{Agradecimientos}

and so on in the .cls file.
Thanks a lot!!!

[Johannes_B]

You should not change the class file!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Stan,

thanks for telling us your solution!

Indeed, a .cls file should never be changed (except by the programmer/maintainer). It would work for the moment, but you would run into problems when you update your TeX installation or the bundle with the class file. Your document would only work with a copy of that changed class file, not with the same class on any other computer without your copy. Imagine, users would change article.cls or book.cls...

You can make your own settings in the preamble of your LaTeX document. So simply put your definitions or redefinitions before \begin{document}.

That's what Johannes meant.

Stefan

[Airatx]

Hello,

I know that this is an old post , but I struggling with this same problem right now , and although it has solved almost all my problems I'm still have a few. I haven't been able of change "Author" for "Autor" or "in the" for "en el".

Any help will be appreciate!!