i18n/l10n

[Ledenel]

Hi, I'm a latex noob and I'm planning to write a book with both English and Chinese versions. I found this template maybe useful to get start with. Does the template support maintaining language translation? If not, do you have any suggestions about doing i18n/l10n?

[albertopessia]

I never worked with multilingual TeX documents and I cannot help directly with your problem. However, I found two possible approaches you might try:

• Convert your source language LaTeX file to a PO file with po4a, edit the PO file, re-inject the translation into a destination LaTeX file.
• Use the \if syntax to keep both languages in the same file. The LaTeX document would look something like this (original answer):

\documentclass{article}

\newif\ifenglish

\englishtrue % Show English text only
% uncomment the following statement to show Chinese text only
%\englishfalse

\begin{document}
\ifenglish
  English text
\else 
  中文文字
\fi
\end{document}