The babel-german bundle

German language support for the babel multilingual package

Copyright 1989--2013 Johannes L. Braams

Bernd Raichle
Walter Schmidt,
Jürgen Spitzmüller

Current Maintainer: Jürgen Spitzmüller E-mail: juergen (at) spitzmueller (dot) org

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3 or later

See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

PURPOSE

This bundle is an extension to the babel package for multilingual typesetting. It provides all necessary macros, definitions and settings to typeset German documents. The bundle includes support for the traditional and reformed German orthography as well as for the Austrian and Swiss varieties of German.

CONTENTS

The bundle consists of the following files:

• german.ins (installation file to unpack the language definition files)
• germanb.dtx (packed language definition files and documentation for the traditional [1901--1996] orthography)
• ngermanb.dtx (packed language definition files and documentation for the reformed [1996 ff.] orthography)
• germanb.pdf: unpacked documentation for germanb.ldf (support for traditional orthography)
• ngermanb.pdf: unpacked documentation for ngermanb.ldf (support for new orthography)
• README (this file)

INSTALLATION

If the latest version of this package is not included in your LaTeX distribution, do the following:

• issue "latex german.ins" to unpack the language definition files
• copy the files (austrian.ldf, german.ldf, germanb.ldf, naustrian.ldf, ngerman.ldf, ngermanb.ldf, nswissgerman.ldf and swissgerman.ldf) to a location where TeX can find them (default location: $TEXMF/tex/generic/babel-german/)

To re-generate the manuals, issue

• pdflatex <file>.dtx
• makeindex -s gglo.ist -o <file>.gls <file>.glo
• pdflatex <file>.dtx
• pdflatex <file>.dtx

Substitute <file> either by germanb or ngermanb.

DOCUMENTATION

See the included manuals germanb.pdf (traditional orthography) and ngermanb.pdf (new orthography) for usage instructions.

CHANGES

See the included manuals germanb.pdf (traditional orthography) and ngermanb.pdf (new orthography), section "Change History".