13 Localización de documentos

This chapter starts with a short introduction to the technical problems that must be solved if you want to use LaTEX with a non–English language. Most of the remaining part of the chapter discusses the babel system, which provides a convenient way to generate documents in different languages. We look in particular at how we can typeset documents in French, Russian, and Greek, as the typesetting of those languages illustrates various aspects of the things one has to deal with in a non–English environment. We also say a few words about how to handle other languages, such as Arabic, Japanese, or Hindi, which are written with the so-called “complex scripts”. Section 13.6 explains how to tailor the language styles to fit your needs in some common cases.