[texhax] Re: foreign fonts

[Martin Heller]

Zbigniew Nitecki wrote:
> I'm a bit confused about the handling of foreign fonts whether via babel 
> or other means.
> 
> Let me be specific.  Suppose in a work (in this case, 
> documentstyle{book}, but I imagine this is irrelevant) I want to include 
> some quotations or reference titles in languages with different 
> alphabets, like Greek or Russian.  I presume I need to put in the 
> preface something like
> \usepackage[greek, russian, english(?)]{babel}.  How do I tell LaTeX 
> that the default language is English, and how do I indicate (and 
> delimit) the text in one of the other fonts?

\usepackage[greek,russian,english]{babel}

sets the default language to english. To use one of the other 
languages use

\begin{otherlanguage}{greek}
Greek stuff
\end{otherlanguage}

\begin{otherlanguage}{russian}
Russian stuff
\end{otherlanguage}