Babel, a multilingual style-option system for use with LaTeX's standard document stylesDuring the development ideas from Nico Poppelier, Piet van Oostrum and many others have been used.

The standard distribution of LTEX contains a number of document styles that are meant to be used, but also serve as examples for other users to create their own document styles. These styles have become very popular among LTEX users. But it should be kept in mind that they were designed for American tastes and contain a number of hard-wired texts. This article describes a set of document-style options that can be used in combination with the standard styles, which makes the latter adaptable to other languages.