[XeTeX] changing \chaptername in polyglossia

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

This is indeed what I would have suggested. For reasons that an expert may be able to tell us more about, if you want to change the name of a chapter-heading, you have to do it after issuing the \begin{document}. I've had the same thing recently, where I was asked to change the name from "Bibliography" to "References". I had to put the \renewcommand after the \begin{document} to make it work.

Cheerio,
Wilfred

--- On Tue, 18/5/10, António Fernandes <amfernandes at netcabo.pt> wrote:

> From: António Fernandes <amfernandes at netcabo.pt>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] changing \chaptername in polyglossia
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 18 May, 2010, 6:41 AM
> Hi Pablo,
> 
> Why not to try:
> 
>  \documentclass[10pt]{book}
>    \usepackage{polyglossia}
>    \setdefaultlanguage{spanish}
>   \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tema}}
>    \begin{document}
>    \chapter{Hola}
>    Este es un documento de prueba.
>    \end{document}
> 
> Apparently it solves your problem.
> 
> António
> 
> 
> On May 17, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > from section 6 from the polyglossia documentation, I
> guess that I can replace the Spanish chapter name with Tema
> writing:
> > 
> >   
> \gappto\spanishcaptions{\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tema}}
> > 
> > But the following code has the standard name
> “Capítulo” as chapter name:
> > 
> >    \documentclass[10pt]{book}
> >    \usepackage{polyglossia}
> >    \setdefaultlanguage{spanish}
> >   
> \gappto\spanishcaptions{\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tema}}
> >    \begin{document}
> >    \chapter{Hola}
> >    Este es un documento de prueba.
> >    \end{document}
> > 
> > Could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
> > 
> > Thanks for your help,
> > 
> > 
> > Pablo
> > 
> > 
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