Babel, a multilingual style-option system for use with L^ATEX's standard document styles

Johannes Braams
PTT Research Neher Laboratories
P.O. Box 421
2260 AK Leidschendam

January 31, 2023

The standard distribution of L^ATEX contains a number of document styles that are meant to be used, but also serve as examples for other users to create their own document styles. These styles have become very popular among L^ATEX users. But it should be kept in mind that they were designed for American tastes and contain a number of hard-wired texts. This article describes a set of document-style options that can be used in combination with the standard styles, which makes the latter adaptable to other languages.