{babel} is a package that manages culturally-determined typographical (and other) rules, and hyphenation patterns for a wide range of languages.
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How to change hyphenation language without Babel?
I would like to change hyphenation pattern in pdlatex without using babel, because babel kills my document class in my language (hungarian). Unfortunately I cannot find a way to change the pattern ...
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Decimal comma: extract one feature from babel-spanish
\usepackage[spanish]{babel} makes $12.34$ to print "12,34", not "12.34". It doesn't change dot to comma if one says for example $x.y$.
Can I use only that feature from babel package, and still use ...
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Typesetting a bilingual English-Hebrew book with facing pages in each language
How would one go about setting, say, a bilingual novel with the English translation on the left side of the book binding (the verso) and the original Hebrew text on the right side of the book (the ...
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Beamer, TOC other language
In this code, I would like to have that the words out of Table of Contents (like section) will be translate into dutch. I thought that it would work with babel but it doesn't work and Latex doesn't ...
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\newtheorem other language
I've worked in my article with the next code in my preambule:
\usepackage[dutch]{babel}
\usepackage[amsthm,thmmarks]{ntheorem}
\newtheorem{diver}{Theorem}
\newtheorem{ex}{Example}
...
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Ancient Greek hyphenation in LuaLaTeX
Can anybody tell me the current state of hyphenation patterns in LuaLaTeX, especially with regard to Ancient Greek?
I searched here on tex.sx and on the web. There are many mailing lists discussing ...
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Conflict between babel and university style sheet
I am a Linguistics PhD student at U.Florida, writing my dissertation. The LaTeX class from our editorial office conflicts with babel (among other packages). Is there a way to override the style sheet ...
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slovak babel vs. cmidrule
I tried to use the Slovak language with the booktabs package.
Let's see a couple of cases.
slovak is included in the options to babel
\usepackage[english,slovak]{babel}
or
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Babel shorthands has a problem with \bm package
Using the babel command \useshorthands{"} prevents \bm package to work normally.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\useshorthands{"}
\usepackage{bm}
...
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enumitem conflict with french babel
The following crashes with the error:
! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[francais]{babel}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
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Writing Greek text [duplicate]
I am trying to compile some Greek text in PDF. I get it compiled using babel package, but text in Greek renders as complete gibberish. Only if I write Latin text does it convert it into Greek letters, ...
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Russian language within figure captions in unicode-aware systems [duplicate]
When I try to compile the following document caption package seem to convert caption text to \cyr.. sequences and fontspec don't understand them. Is it possible do somehow get around that without ...
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babel + xdef compile error
The following code throws the error
Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 7
when I enable the babel package.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
...
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Babel spanish option and fancyvrb incompatibility
The following MWE compiles without problems
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\begin{document}
\SaveVerb{x>y}|x > y|
...
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BibLaTeX and babel - strange errors
I' m writing my MA thesis using LaTeX + BibLaTeX for bibliography. Sadly it seems that BibLaTeX paired with babel results in a number of strange errors:
\extraspolutonikogreek ...unct ...
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How to write in different languages
I am writing thesis in tex for which I am using vbook package. I want to write Acknowlegdement in my mother laguage. I belong to India and I want to write it in Hindi (Indian Laguage). This must ...
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biblatex: change name of author according to language?
Usually a name stays the same in whatever language. So, whenever I quote a work by Knuth -- be it in an English article or a German one -- I will quote him as Donald E. Knuth.
This is not always the ...
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Babel not working on OS X? [closed]
I'm using a MacBook Air, with OS X, and I have great difficulties in using Latex in my native language (serbian).
If I use the standard babel package in TexShop:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
...
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Keystrokes have miraculously switched to French using Beamer
Hi I'm using Beamer to prepare a presentation and for some weird reason the keystroke has decided to switch to French (it worked fine in the coursebook that I have already prepared).
As far as I can ...
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Acro package: \printacronyms translation
While using acro package, I get the following message:
Package translations Warning: Translation for `acronym-list-name' in
portuguese unknown. on input line 67.
Package translations ...
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Specifying a different font for polytonic Greek in pdfTeX with Babel
I am writing my master’s thesis with the ulthese class, which is now part of MiKTeX and TeX Live. This class is based on memoir and is fairly flexible, but assumes the use of pdfTeX and sets the font ...
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“in” untranslated for French incollection and artcle bibliography entries
Instead of showing the French word dans, BibLaTeX is putting in to introduce booktitles and journals. For example
@incollection{rodgers99,
Address = {London},
Author = {Roders, C.},
...
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How does one change the babel language with the ClassicThesis style?
It's all in the title. The issue is simple, I just wish to change the language so that I can type in french using babel. The original languages are ngerman and american.
I just want to replace the ...
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Set biblatex smartand to small caps
I want to apply small caps to the final name delimiter using BibLaTeX. I tried the following
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[spanish,es-minimal]{babel}
\usepackage[style=american]{csquotes}
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Hyphenating words with archaic spellings
I often work with texts from the 17- to 1800s that (in addition to now obsolete words) contain familiar words in slightly different spelling. The language of these texts, and of the ones I'm writing, ...
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language in latex and in particular in biblatex [duplicate]
I write my thesis in French but some of my references are in German, English, and French. I use babel for the French but English titles are in French format! My document is this one:
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soul package does not work with user-defined language shorthands
Using \caps from the soul package with user-defined language shorthands generates an error. However, it works fine with language shorthands defined by babel itself, e.g. by using ...
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letter document class and babel/magyar not compatible any more?
I am recently having trouble with combining the letter document class with the magyar language option of the babel package. The weird thing is that the last time when I had to use this combination ...
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babel's \foreignlanguage works for Russian, but not for Serbian
I was trying to write the Serbian alphabet using:
\usepackage[serbian, english]{babel}
...
\foreignlanguage{serbian}{D d}
But I get nothing. When I try this with e.g:
\usepackage[russian, ...
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votes
1answer
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Hyperref font selection problem with babel and french
How one can change font in the text form?
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english,russian,french]{babel}
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Hyphenation of words connected with a double/triple dash
I can't hyphenate the words
Cam•bri•an--Or•do•vi•cian
because they are connected with an endash. The same probably happens when using the emdash.
I tried this
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babel: adding language shorthands to work inside glossaries
I added ngerman shorthands to my english babel as described here. But they do not work for glossaries, and probably in other macors as discussed here. I load all the acronyms as a separate file in the ...
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Change hyphenation patterns only for a chapter
I am currently writing a book in Italian using LyX and I use
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
in the preamble. However, I need to write a chapter of this book in a different language.
How can I change ...
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Change default text of numbered \part [duplicate]
I have a large document with lector notes. And each lector I'm separating by \part. I would like to change the default numbering text from "part" to "Lecture".
Example:
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Package babel Error: You haven't loaded the option english yet [duplicate]
Sorry for the less-than-descriptive title, but I'm new to LaTeX and have no idea how to debug or make sense of errors.
I've modified an invoice template from here to suit my needs, but I'm getting ...
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How to define a new command for guillemets marks [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
babel shorthand "| doesn’t work in macros
I would like to define a new command for guillemets marks. I know how to obtain them in LaTeX and those I would like to ...
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Using babel and cleveref causes unnecessary horizontal space in header
Update
This bug has been fixed with version 0.18.9 of cleveref, which is currently on ctan.
Question
Babel and cleveref do not seem to work flawlessy together when they share the same language ...
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How do I discover the shorthands defined by babel in my language?
The reason I want to do it is that I want to set brazilian language in babel and I want to use xy-pic package, but I have to use it inside an environment in which the shorthands are off.
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\textit doesn't work with babel’s russian and mathptmx
\textit doesn't work in a LaTeX template for a thesis in English. Now I am writing my thesis in Russian using the same template. MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
...
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autoref in French documents incompatible with TeX4ht
I'm currently using MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows 7 and can't get to compile a French document correctly. Here is a very minimal example:
\documentclass[francais]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
...
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How to change the order of algorithm number and name in algorithm2e?
I have to write an algorithm in Hungarian, where the caption must look like:
1.3. Algoritmus: caption of alg
instead of the usual style
Algorithm 1.3: caption of alg.
Until now I had no ...
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Combination of Subfiles, Apacite and Babel packages result in LaTeX error
For my bachelor thesis, I want to write my chapters in separate files and be able to compile them separately. To combine them, I use the subfiles package. For citations, I have to use Apa style via ...
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LaTeX Templates in Russian
I am using LaTeX template for a thesis in English. Now I need to write my thesis in Russian using the same template. I added:
\documentclass[11pt, a4paper, oneside]{Thesis}
\usepackage{cmap} ...
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section titles regionalised [closed]
i have a problem, currently I'm using texlive 2012 and have problem with titles of section - the bibliography.
altholugh i use in my code:
\usepackage[polish]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
...
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hyperref autoref capitalization problems with babel
I have already read some similar qustions, but the solution over there does not work if I add the 'babel' package. The thing is change the autorefname of one specific, say Figure, and I just want to ...
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Clash between TIKZ and French Babel [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
tikz declare function and babel french option
I'm working on a document requiring both tikz and [french]Babel.
There is a clash between [french]Babel, and TIKZ:
No ...
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Date declaration in datenumber
In the following MWE, \today prints the date in British format, e.g. 14th January 2013. However, \datedate prints the date as January 28, 2013. I wonder how the latter can be changed to the former.
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I would like to Change “Inhaltsverzeichnis” to “Contents” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change the name of document elements like “Figure”, “Contents”, “Bibliography” etc.?
In order to fix overruns I have used the following code:
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How to automatically adjust the emdash length according to current language?
In Russian typography the emdash, which is typed as the ligature --- in LaTeX, is 20% shorter than the standard emdash. The babel package cares this difference so that --- prints a shorter emdash if ...
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What is the difference between \declare@shorthand and \defineshorthand in babel?
What is the difference between \declare@shorthand and \defineshorthand in babel (v.3.9)? Which of the two macros is preferable in a language definition file?
babel.pdf manual (v.3.9) provides an ...
