Rename monthnames in LaTeX

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I've got a seemingly small problem using LaTeX, which i can't find the answer for after quite a bit of internet searching...

I'm writing a schoolassignment in faroese, and want to change the \date(\today) names to faroese.

I guess i have to use the \renewcommand, but i don't know what i should put in there.

Basicly, i want to change the names as follow:

January --> Januar February --> Februar March --> Mars etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Would better be asked at http://tex.stackexchange.com/ – eckes Jan 15 '11 at 20:50 — eckes, Jan 15 '11 at 20:50

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 15 '11 at 20:43

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You are better off not doing this by hand, but letting the babel package take care of it. As a bonus, that also gives you correct hyphenation, caption names, etcetera. From here:

\usepackage[icelandic]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

(Since it's written there, I assume that icelandic is close enough to Faroese, but until five minutes ago, I didn't even know that the language existed...)

answered Jan 15 '11 at 20:43

Thomas

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Now I just sound picky, but the spelling in icelandic and faroese is very different, although we use (almost) the same letters. – Gunnar Sjúrðarson Knudsen Jan 15 '11 at 20:52
That's not picky at all, I'm just clueless about your language, sorry :) You could still include babel and fix up the cases where it goes wrong. (Or maybe you could do the world a favour: copy the `icelandic` language definition, modify it to work for Faroese, and publish it.) – Thomas Jan 15 '11 at 21:00
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Might just do that after this assignment (deadline is in a few hours), although seems like an overkill for 48.000 people (whereof i guess around 10 use latex) – Gunnar Sjúrðarson Knudsen Jan 15 '11 at 21:05
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@Gunnar *seems like an overkill* - it's good advertising for Latex if you do that, mind. MS Word doesn't have a Faroese language pack, and I'm guessing it has more than 10 Faroese users. – Charles Stewart Jan 17 '11 at 20:31

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 15 '11 at 21:54

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You want to define your own \today. To display Januar 15, 2011, put this above \begin{document}

\def\today{ifcase\month\or Januar\or Februar\or Mars ...etc... December\fi \space\number\day, \number\year}

edited Jan 15 '11 at 21:54

Philipp

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answered Jan 15 '11 at 20:56

dyno

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Rename monthnames in LaTeX

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