General ⇒ Bilingual documents

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Both ways (\if conditional, comment package) have one source document, and generate a single PDF document as output, depending on the value chosen, English or Greek. So you need to runs, one with each setting.

Stefan

[Tolaso]

Here is a solution, in a nearly 10 years old thread of LaTeX.org.

http://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5286&start=0

I finally found a solution. By trial and error, I managed to find that commands can be passed between quotes. So for the previous example, calling the tex file temp.tex, the following script would create the 2 pdf:

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#!/bin/bash
cd ~/TeXs/Temp # This is the directory where the file is.
pdflatex -jobname=script-fr -interaction=nonstopmode "\newif\iffr\newif\ifen\frtrue \input{temp}"
pdflatex -jobname=script-en -interaction=nonstopmode "\newif\iffr\newif\ifen\entrue \input{temp}"

Definitely not very elegant, but it works. I put it here, in case somebody else needs it.

Quick question. Where does this script is supposed to be placed?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

This script can be placed anywhere. It's a shell script for Linux or Mac or Unix.

On a Windows PC, it could be a batch file or a cmd file or a powershell script. It only matters that it calls LaTeX two times, once with each option.

Stefan

[Tolaso]

Thank you!! I'll give it a try and share my results if it worked or not?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Sure, let us know!

Stefan

[thomasb]

This works on Windows :

• the minimalBilingual.tex

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  \documentclass{article}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[french,english]{babel}
  \newcommand{\langfr}[1]{%
     \iffr\selectlanguage{french}#1\fi}
  \newcommand{\langen}[1]{%
     \ifen\selectlanguage{english}#1\fi}
  \begin{document}
  \section{%
  \langfr{Bonjour!}
  \langen{Hello!}}
  \langfr{Ce texte est en français.\\
  Règles typographiques françaises \textit{devraient} s'appliquer.}
  \langen{This is text in English.\\
  English typographic rules \textit{should} apply.}
  \end{document}

• the batchBilingual.bat

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  pdflatex -jobname=script-fr -interaction=nonstopmode "\newif\iffr\newif\ifen\frtrue \input{minimalBilingual}"
  pdflatex -jobname=script-en -interaction=nonstopmode "\newif\iffr\newif\ifen\entrue \input{minimalBilingual}"

  (a .bat file to be double clicked)

[Tolaso]

Well I went for the solution with the .bat file. Everything works perfectly .. !! Unless, I have to rewrite the document in the translated form. This will take some time.

Thanks guys!

[Matt Phillips]

Thanks for the clarification! Gonna try it your way.