Internationalisation

A special variable $LANGUAGE_TITLES in the initialisation or configuration files determines the language in which some section titles will appear. For example setting it to

$LANGUAGE_TITLES = 'french';

will cause L^ATEX2HTML to produce ``Table des matières'' instead of ``Table of Contents''. Furthermore, the value of the \today command is presented in a format customary in that language.

The only languages currently supported are french, english and german but it is trivial to add support for another language in the file latex2html.config. As a guide here is the entry for the French titles:

sub french_titles {
    $toc_title = "Table des mati\{\`e}res";
    $lof_title = "Liste des figures";
    $lot_title = "Liste des tableaux";
    $idx_title = "Index";
    $bib_title = "R\{\'e}f\{\'e}rences";
    $abs_title = "R\{\'e}sum\{\'e}";
    $pre_title = "Pr\{\'e}face";
    $app_title = "Annexe";
    $info_title = "\{\`A}propos de ce document...";
    @Month = ('', 'janvier', 'f\{\'e}vrier', 'mars', 'avril', 'mai',
              'juin', 'juillet', 'ao\{\^u}t', 'septembre', 'octobre',
              'novembre', 'd\{\'e}cembre');
    $GENERIC_WORDS = "a|au|aux|mais|ou|et|donc|or|ni|car"
        . "|l|la|le|les|c|ce|ces|un|une|d|de|du|des";
}

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The $GENERIC_WORDS are a list of short words excluded when filenames are specially requested to be created from section-headings.
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In order to provide full support for another language you may also replace the navigation buttons which come with L^ATEX2HTML (by default in English) with your own. As long as the new buttons have the same file-names as the old ones, there should not be a problem.