If you prefere a Language different from English, these people may be your friends. They have translated lshort to their native languages. Farsi Mehdi Omidali Finish Timo Hellgren --> CTAN:info/lshort/finish French Matthieu Herrb --> CTAN:info/lshort/french French II Daniel FLIPO (Much more up to date) --> http://daniel.flipo.free.fr/doc/dfshort/ Spanish Tom'as Bautista --> CTAN:info/lshort/spanish Russian Boris Tobotras --> CTAN:info/lshort/russian Ukranian Maksym Polyakov --> http://www.auburn.edu/~polayma/lshort Polish Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz Janusz Go{\l}dasz, Ryszard Kubiak and Tomasz Przechlewski --> CTAN:info/lshort/polish Turkish Bekir Karaoglu --> Expressed intent to start translating ... Brasilian- Portugese Demerson Andre Polli --> http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~polli Portugese Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes --> http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/~albie/lshort Korean Karnes Kim --> CTAN:info/lshort/korean Italian Gilda Guild --> CTAN:info/lshort/italian Thai Chakkapas Visavakul --> CTAN:info/lshort/thai Czech Michal Ko\v{c}er and Pavel S\'ykora (kocer@ipex.cz) --> http://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/local/cstex/doc/ Bulgarian Stefka Romanova Karakoleva --> CTAN:info/lshort/bulgarian Romanian George Pauliuc (Stated his intention todo one) Slovak Jan Busa --> not published Japanese NOMURA Masataka --> CTAN:info/lshort/japanese Korean Karnes Kim karnes@doeun.pe.kr --> http://www.doeun.pe.kr/frames/lshort.html --> CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/korean/ Swedisch Anders Källström (Stated his intention todo one) Indonesian I Gede Wijaya S (Stated Intention todo a translation) If you know of other translations, please tell me. German The original german version... Hubert Partl et al. : original german version --> CTAN:info/l209kurz Walter Schmidt : current version for LaTeX2e (still mantained, but half of lshort) --> CTAN:info/lshort/german Tobi Oetiker