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For using latex with different languages' what does one do? I want to write versions of the same paragraphs in different languages. Have installed texlive, auctex, and have seen some examples using babel (although babel was used to specify a single language).

I use lualatex to make the pdf file.

F. Pantigny
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Veak
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  • lualatex and xelatex I think using pollyglossia and not babel, So, \usepackage{pollyglossia} and then \setmainlanguage{english} and \setotherlanguage{italian} would be sufficient. You can change between languages by using \begin{italian} and \end{italian} etc. (XeLaTeX actually needs pollyglossia... lualatex possibly can handle both... not sure) – koleygr Sep 02 '22 at 11:03
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    Surely you can use babel with lualatex and xelatex. You can declare the languages you want as options when loading the package and then you can use commands \selectlanguage or\foreignlanguage to call any language you declared except with the last one declared in options which is the default. For example when loading the package \usepackage[english,french,greek]{babel}, Greek is the default language and English and French are the foreign secondary languages which you can call as mentioned before. – miltos Sep 02 '22 at 11:25
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    @koleygr Babel fully supports pdflatex, xelatex and lualatex. Please, see the manual (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latex3/babel/v.3.79/babel.pdf) and the babel site (https://latex3.github.io/babel/). – Javier Bezos Sep 02 '22 at 15:13
  • Thank you ... just remembered that I had decided to go on with polyglossia many years before for some reasons that had to do with greek. Thank you. – koleygr Sep 02 '22 at 16:15
  • There are many examples here. For example, https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/513667/5735 . The babel manual (linked above) contains many examples (eg, in sec 1.2) and there are full document samples in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/latex3/babel/tree/main/samples . – Javier Bezos Sep 03 '22 at 06:30

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Here is an example:

% !TeX program = lualatex
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper,body={180mm,237mm}]{geometry}
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\setmainfont{STIX Two Text}\setsansfont{FiraSans}\setmonofont{Consolas}
\usepackage[english,french,greek]{babel}
\begin{document}
    Αυτά είναι Ελληνικά

\selectlanguage{english} This is in English

Αυτή είναι η προεπιλεγμένη γλώσσα = \selectlanguage{english} This is the default language

\selectlanguage{greek} Ελληνικά και πάλι!=\selectlanguage{french} Grec encore !

\foreignlanguage{english}{This sentence is in English}

\selectlanguage{french} C' est la vie!

\foreignlanguage{french}{Je suis...}

Και μετά συνεχίζεις στην προεπιλεγμένη γλώσσα.=\foreignlanguage{french}{Et puis vous continuez dans la langue par défaut.}=\foreignlanguage{english}{And then you continue in the default language.}



\end{document}
miltos
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