\documentclass{book} \typeout{I am going to load five languages. Don't get desperate} \usepackage[english,german,spanish,french,hebrew,american]{polyglot} \raggedbottom \begin{document} \chapter{A sample document} \section{1st language: English} This document illustrates some points of the package \textsf{polyglot}. For instance, the British date is \today. The American one is \uselanguage[date]{american}{\today}.\\ \verb=\uselanguage[date]{american}{\today}= \unselectlanguage \selectlanguage*{french} \section{2\sptext{e} langue: fran/cais} The first things you will notice in French is the indentation of the first line after the title, which is in the \verb=layout= group, and the small space just before the colon. Other features are: \begin{itemize} \item Dashes in every level of \verb=itemize= environment. \item Ligatures for a lot of accents (and encyclop"aedic task). \verb=encyclop"aedic= \item French << guillemets >>. \verb=<< guillemets >>=. \item French spacing. \end{itemize} Today is \today. \unselectlanguage \selectlanguage*{spanish} \section{3\sptext{er} idioma: espa~nol} Also ligatures, guillemets, new layout, etc. Today is \today. \clearpage \unselectlanguage \selectlanguage*{german} \section{4. Sprache: Deutsche} The usual ligatures are implemented, as "`German quotes"' \verb="`German quotes"'=, \verb="ck=, usw. In \verb=OT1= you get low umlauts: "a, "o, "u. Today is \today. \section{5th language: hebrew} In this section we illustrate the use of the package for romanizing languages. In \verb=r_hebrew= we define some ligatures which simplifly the typing of text (following the ISO recomendations, with lots of diacritic marks). For example: \let\k\c \begin{quote} \selectlanguage{hebrew} b.ar-.a, tim-z-.en".a, te-z-e, r-o^s, y.av^o'', k.al^u'', n.av^i'', p.ar".a, z".e, q'en"e, g.al"o, b.an.a(y)w, r'e''iyy".a, h.a--.ar.e-z, w.e--'.e-d^om, r^ua.h \end{quote} \begin{verbatim} b.ar-.a, tim-z-.en".a, te-z-e, r-o^s, y.av^o'', k.al^u'', n.av^i'', p.ar".a, z".e, q'en"e, g.al"o, b.an.a(y)w, r'e''iyy".a, h.a--.ar.e-z, w.e--'.e-d^om, r^ua.h \end{verbatim} \end{document}