Frank Küster wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:43:06PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> Of course if there is such an extension, it would be nice to have it in
> >> Debian. Obviously nobody cared enough so far. I don't even know for
> >> which purpose it is needed; Google groups has nothing about "translator
> >> beamer" in the (quite active) german group de.comp.text.tex.
> >
> > It is needed for localising Beamer. Specifically, it translates words
> > like "Theorem" and "Definition", which are otherwise hardcoded in
> > Beamer.
>
> Ah, that explains a lot: They are the same in English and German, no
> wonder I cannot find anything in a german newsgroup.
Yupp! I've used a local file with teTeX that translates the English
word 'Example' into its German corresponding phrase since it does look
a bit ugly on German slides to come up with English words every once
in a while.
For reference (and maybe so that Google may one time find something useful),
I've used the following file with the teTeX version of TeX. This one does
not work anymore with TeX Live, though.
------------------------------------------------------------
\RequirePackage{ifthen}
\newcommand{\translation}[1]{%
\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{Example}}{Beispiel}{#1}
}
------------------------------------------------------------
To make this work with TeX Live again
. Download translator.sty, translator-language-mappings.tex,
translator-theorem-dictionary-German.dict (and maybe more
dictionaries) into your texmf directory (/usr/local/share/texmf/
for example) from
<http://latex-beamer.cvs.sourceforge.net/latex-beamer/translator/>
. Change your presentation to start with:
\documentclass[german]{beamer}
. And enable babel with:
\usepackage{babel}
. Compile again. Be delighted.
There's good documentation in
<http://latex-beamer.cvs.sourceforge.net/latex-beamer/translator/doc/English/translator-manual-en.tex>
Antti, I'm sorry, but there's no Finnish yet, so maybe it's time to
fetch the files and send them back to the author translated *hint*.
It would be nice if this package/these translations (French and German
at least) could be included in the latex-beamer or the regular texlive
packages.
Regards,
Joey
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