bilinguallegal ⚖️📑

A TeX package for the typesetting of bilingual legal documents such as Terms and Conditions.

Usage

The commands of this package have been defined to accept values in pairs of arguments in which the left-hand left-hand member of a pair by default represent the primary language of the document whilst the right-hand member of a pair represent the secondary language.

The snippet below demonstrates how German and English content is passed to some of the commands provided by this package.

\usepackage{latex/bilinguallegal/bilinguallegal}
\begin{document}
  \begin{legal}[0.5]
    \addtitle{Titel auf Deutsch}{Title in English}
    
    \insertTOCs{Inhaltsverzeichnis}{Table of Contents}
    
    \newpage
    
    \addsection{GeneralProvisions}{Allgemeine Bestimmungen}{General Provisions}
    
    \addclause{SubjectMatter}{Gegenstand und Ziele}{Subject Matter}{
      \begin{enumerate}[(1)]
        \item Diese Verordnung enthält Vorschriften zum Schutz natürlicher
        Personen bei der Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten und zum freien
        Verkehr solcher Daten.
        \item Diese Verordnung schützt die Grundrechte und Grundfreiheiten
        natürlicher Personen und insbesondere deren Recht auf Schutz
        personenbezogener Daten.
        \item Der freie Verkehr personenbezogener Daten in der Union darf aus
        Gründen des Schutzes natürlicher Personen bei der Verarbeitung
        personenbezogener Daten weder eingeschränkt noch verboten werden.
      \end{enumerate}
    }{
      \begin{enumerate}[(1)]
        \item This Regulation lays down rules relating to the protection of
        natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and
        rules relating to the free movement of personal data.
        \item This Regulation protects fundamental rights and freedoms of
        natural persons and in particular their right to the protection of
        personal data.
        \item The free movement of personal data within the Union shall be
        neither restricted nor prohibited for reasons connected with the
        protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal
        data.
      \end{enumerate}
    }
  \end{legal}
\end{document}

Note that in some cases commands may take more than just a single pair of arguments for the different languages as in:

• \addsection{labelName}{leftTitle}{rightTitle} where labelName is the label one may use in the text by means of the ref{labelName} command to refer to this section.
• \addclause{labelName}{leftTitle}{rightTitle}{leftBody}{rightBody} where separate pairs of arguments allow the specification of title and body text for the two languages.

Package Options

The package accepts the following options in order to produce different layouts:

• left (default) or right indicates the main language. In a single-column layout this indicates the language displayed, while in a 2-column layout this indicates which language is displayed on the first, i.e. left, column.
• sectionedoutline activates an alternate layout for the tree displayed in the outline pane of the PDF reader in use. In a 2-column layout, this partitions the outline to provide separate root nodes for each language and therefore effectively displays two blocks with their respective trees. Without this option activated the outline is only a single tree with every node of that tree containing the section heads of both languages, provided that the 2-column layout is enabled.
• single activate a single column layout, the outline of a single column document is not affected by the sectionedoutline option.

Examples

Look at examples/gdpr.tex for an example on the usage of the bilingualagreement package.