[comp.text.tex] UPLOAD: babel system of style options

DHOSEK@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU (Don Hosek--ymir archive) (05/31/91)

I've just uploaded the babel system of style options to
ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.babel.babel-system]
The system came with support for several languages whose files
have been moved to the appropriate subdirectories:
ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.babel.dutch]dutch.doc/sty
ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.babel.english]english.doc/sty
ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.babel.french]francais.doc/sty
ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.babel.german]germanb.doc/sty
ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.babel.italian]italian.doc/sty
ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.babel.spanish]spanish.doc/sty
All of the above files were obtained from listserv@hearn on
30-May-1991.

In addition, as they are created, styles for other languages will
be placed in their subdirectories as necessary. This includes, at
present
ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.babel.russian]russian.sty

The below was excerpted from the readme file:

        I am pleased to announce the babel system of style options
        to be used with the standard LaTeX document styles.

        This system consists of any number of language-specific files
        and an underlying common file, babel.sty. The common file
        redefines various parts of the standard document styles,
        replacing english texts with macros. These macros are defined
        in the language-specific files that will be published in TUGboat.
        Currently I have language-specific files for dutch (ofcourse),
        german, english french, italian and spanish. (For the german and
        french parts I used Hubert Partl's german.sty)

        An extra feature of this system is that it offers a possibility
        to switch between languages.

        Anyone who likes to test this, please contact me.

        Please not that this is quite a different approach as the one
        discussed by Joachim Schrod in TUGboat Volume 11 No1. He describes
        a system where the actual LaTeX sources files are modified and a
        new .fmt file has to be built. All of that is not necessary to
        use my approach.

-dh

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