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.

Languages currently supported are finnish, french, english, german and spanish. It is trivial to add support for another language by creating a file in the styles/ subdirectory, or by adding to the file latex2html.config. As a guide, here is the entry for French titles:

sub french_titles {
    $toc_title = "Table des mati\\`eres";
    $lof_title = "Liste des figures";
    $lot_title = "Liste des tableaux";
    $idx_title = "Index";
    $ref_title = "R\\'ef\\'erences";
    $bib_title = "R\\'ef\\'erences";
    $abs_title = "R\\'esum\\'e";
    $app_title = "Annexe";
    $pre_title = "Pr\\'eface";
    $fig_name = "Figure";
    $tab_name = "Tableau";
    $part_name = "Partie";
    $prf_name = "Preuve";
    $child_name = "Sous-sections";
    $info_title = "\\`Apropos de ce document...";
    @Month = ('', 'janvier', "f\\'evrier", 'mars', 'avril', 'mai',
              'juin', 'juillet', "ao\\^ut", 'septembre', 'octobre',
              'novembre', "d\\'ecembre");
    $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";
}

Notice how the backslash needs to be doubled, when a macro is needed (for accented characters, say). Also, the $GENERIC_WORDS are a list of short words to be excluded when filenames are specially requested to be created from section-headings. 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.