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Multi-language with comment package

Do you want to keep a document with more languages and/or optional sections and maybe being able to turn on/off them whether necessary? The Comment package is the answer to these questions! I show you in WriteLaTeX how to set it with a practical template.

Following the thread: Is it possible to keep my translation together with original text? I have discovered this fantastic feature implemented by Victor Eijkhout in the Comment Package.


The picture is self-explanatory

How it works?

  1. Simply you have to activate it writing in the head of the document:
    \usepackage{comment}
  2. Then add the calls in order to include or exclude chunks of text, in my case:
    \includecomment{en}
    \excludecomment{it}
    Above the texts in English (en) are shown, the Italian (it) ones are ignored.
  3. Finally in the document, you have to put the texts in this way:
    \begin{en}
    \huge{Text in English!}
    \end{en}
    
    \begin{it}
    \huge{Testo in italiano!}
    \end{it}
    

In a few words: quick and painless! Try it in writeLaTeX: Multi-language Test.

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Nicola Rainiero

A civil geotechnical engineer with the ambition to facilitate own work with free software for a knowledge and collective sharing. Also, I deal with green energy and in particular shallow geothermal energy. I have always been involved in web design and 3D modelling.