{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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Using “German” quotation marks inside \newcommand [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
babel shorthand "| doesn’t work in macros
I know there is a deeper non-understanding of LaTeX mechanics at work here, but I have no idea how to phrase my question ...
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Classicthesis in Chinese?
I wish to compile my dissertation in the beautiful classicthesis.
My setting: Mac OX 10.6.8, TeX Live 2012 + LyX 2.0.5.
I am able to work and produce document in Chinese elsewhere including in book, ...
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Colon in bibliography keys incompatible with babel, biblatex and tex4ht
Keys are labeled as author:year in my BibTeX file. For example, @article{John:2000, author={John}, year={2000}, ...}. This scheme works well with pdftex, biblatex and mk4ht oolatex.
But if in ...
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Language problems with biblatex and babel
I am trying to use biblatex with IEEEtran and babel, however I am having an error: Package babel Error: You haven't defined the language ENGLISH yet.. With regular Bibtex everything works as usual. ...
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Polyglossia vs Babel
Could someone summarize features which are (1) common and (2) different for the babel and polyglossia packages? I know that babel 3.8 (current version) fails to run for some languages (eg, Russian) ...
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Undefined control sequence \bbljan
I'm writing a bibliography for an article in Russian. Using \bibliographystyle{plain} is not an option, since it uses e.g. conjunction "and" when listing authors. So I'm sticking to ...
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TeX fails to generate output with Hebrew text: Jerusalem font metric file missing
I have MiKTeX installed on a Windows machine.
I have this simple document, where I'm trying to use Hebrew:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{ucs} % package to add unicode support
...
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Conflicts with Datatool and babel (french)
I am having trouble compiling a latex document using an external CSV file with datatool and using the french language from the babel package.
The content of my latex file is:
...
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Using \selectlanguage with csquotes
As per this question, I am using csquotes to convert quotationmarks to typographical-quotes. However, when changing language through \selectlanguage the quotationmarks no longer gets converted. (I ...
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tikz declare function and babel french option
I would like to declare functions in tikz for multiple uses of the same function within the code.
Sadly, it seems that the tikz "declare function" is not compatible with the french option in babel.
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Listings package with doublequote and german babel incompatibility [closed]
After adding the language ngerman to package babel in a large document I stumbled upon a strange error resulting from the parallel use of listings package:
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [grouping ...
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Babel warns of lack of hyphenation patterns for Hebrew
I use TeX Live including the Hebrew package. I've tried to produce a simple TeX file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage [english,hebrew]{babel}
\begin{document}
שלום
\end{document}
but I keep ...
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Why do I get this error when using babel? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
\tableofcontents encoding issue with lualatex
I tried adding babel package to my file - to get proper hyphenation for my language. But I get strange error, related ...
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Error caused by interaction between minted, footnotes, babel and "(double quote)
I'd like to put some inline code using minted but when I try to typesent the empty string "" I get an "undefined control sequence" error.
Sample code:
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
...
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babel and \contentsname, how to add extra customization?
This is what I'm trying to do:
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{
\vspace{-8mm}
{\Huge Table of Contents}\vspace{-3mm}
\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm} \\[-4mm]
}
Using babel, I can get this code to work:
...
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LaTeX Error: File `babelbst.tex` not found [closed]
I use a custom bst file with LyX. When I use default setting it works fine except writing everything in English and I need it to be in French. However, when I choose "babel" I get a LaTeX Error: File ...
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Babel and the decimal separator
I'm using Babel for writing a document in spanish. However, it uses a comma instead of a period as a decimal marker (i.e. 3,14 instead of 3.14).
Is there any way to reverse the behaviour? I prefer ...
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Punctuation in bibliography with multiple languages
In a document written in a given language (in my case French but it may not matter so much) I have a bibliography mixing entries in different languages (in this case French, English and German). I ...
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Change the word “Table” in table captions
I need to have tables with their numbers, just as when I use \caption.
My problem is that when I use the \caption it shows me like this:
Cuadro x.x: this is some table.
The word Cuadro is ...
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Catalan language “ele geminada”
I have a document with catalan babel, and, in catalan language, it's common to use a letter called ele geminada or two lower-case L and an interpunct (·) between them. (Like "cel·la" or "pel·lícula". ...
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No space after closing double quote
As the title says, there's no spacing after my closing quotes, I have boiled my huge preamble down to the following,
% Manual: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf
...
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multilang with babel problem
I've loaded babel in my .sty file like this:
\RequirePackage[ukrainian,russian,english]{babel}
Then at .tex or at the same .sty file I am trying to:
\selectlanguage(X)
\languagename
...
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vote
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Incompatibility between \nobreakdash and babel
I use the \nobreakdash command to disallow a linebreak after the dash in short expressions like -s, -ar etc. I use ({\nobreakdash}-s, {\nobreakdash}-ar) but it seems not work as can be seen on the ...
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MiKTeX update: a too old babel/frenchb
This question deals with the version of a babel language available after a MiKTeX update (the french one, namely frenchb.dtx). I've just made an update of my (complete) MiKTeX 2.9, especially ...
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Write a class with language dependent strings
I am unable to make my class strings language dependent using babel.
I have the following minimal example:
file test-babel.cls
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1999/12/01]
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How to turn the hyphenation on? [closed]
I was looking for a clue on how to use cyrillics in an english text and vice versa. Finally I found a solution here: Cyrillic in (La)TeX
The solution looks like this
\documentclass[article, ...
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Command to uppercase the first letter of a maths command
This question is a bit similar to Command to uppercase the first letter of each word in a sentence.
What I want is to build a new command for being used just at math mode, using the ...
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pdflatex endless loop and page headings wrong aligned with dateiliste/babel [closed]
In the following code the heading is wrong aligned if babel and dateiliste are loaded together. Furthermore the whole MWE goes into an endless loop if the first line is removed.
% remove to let ...
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votes
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hyperref bad references
After cleaning up my project and compiling a tex file 10 times in a row:
rm temp.toc temp.pdf temp.out temp.html temp.aux
xelatex temp.tex # executed 10 times!
I still get bad references with ...
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English / German APA reference fails partly - “retrieved from” and “origyear” untranslated
I have a problem with my multilingual APA reference. I use LuaTeX, BibLaTeX and biber. I use the BibLaTeX option babel=other to activate language switching. Switching gets done by adding an ...
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Unexpected clash between babel and pgf spy
The following example taken from the pgfplots manual (p. 121) works
fine only if the line loading babel is commented
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel} % this is the troubelsome ...
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How to keep LyX from using babel?
I'm writing a document using the copernicus_discussions.cls document class. This document class doesn't work when using babel. So I need to keep LyX from automatically using babel. However, even ...
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Babel + Hebrew + aeguill incompatiblility
(Question split off from here.)
If you try to use the aeguill package (which adds some guillemets to the ae fonts) with Babel and Hebrew:
\documentclass{standalone}
...
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votes
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How remove dot after section number in ToC with babel's spanish?
I'm using the book document class and the babel package with the spanish option, I have a ToC like this:
CHAPTER NAME
1.1. SECTION NAME
1.1.1. Subsection name
1.1.1.1. ...
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votes
1answer
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Including Hebrew text in a non-Hebrew document (Babel not working)
I need to introduce one Hebrew word in a document. I have been trying to add an hebrew option in my Babel includepackage command, as in the following code, but it does not work: it triggers a clash ...
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votes
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Caption formatting with babel French
I have a problem override the default formatting of float captions when using babel’s French option. When babel’s francais setting is chosen, captions are formatted with the label (“Figure X”) in ...
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! Package babel Error: Language definition file armenian.ldf not found
I'd like to use hyphenation with armenian language.
Here is my test code (the armenian text is in utf8).
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
...
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votes
1answer
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How to install a language package in Texmaker on Ubuntu 12.04?
I'm having problems with the babel language package with TeXmaker could someone propose a fix I've typed in \usepackage[french]{babel} and I get the following error:
Package babel Warning: No ...
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votes
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What's the difference between \usepackage{ngerman} and \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
Is there something additional that \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} does that a simple \usepackage{ngerman} won't be able to do?
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How to make a new greek font to work with babel
I have an OpenType font (.otf) and I need to use it from pdftex. I use an 8 bit input encoding. I am stuck on the greek part with babel. The input I use is the following:
...
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Equation spacing issue with fleqn (amsmath) and frenchb (Babel)
This is a follow-up to this question.
Here is an exemple of the code I wrote to add a light gray background
to important equations:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[fleqn]{amsmath}
% ...
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votes
1answer
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Change the language of a LaTeX document
Is there any way to change which language LaTeX works in? I'm writing a report in danish, but when I use \maketitle and other commands which generates some content. This content appears in english. Is ...
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votes
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Enable letters with diaeresis
My document is in in dutch and there are quite a few letters with diaeresis in it. I have this on top of my document:
\usepackage[dutch]{babel}
I thought this would fix the language-problem but ...
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German text not aligned as English [closed]
In my \documentclass{book} I have two chapters so far, one is in English, and the other one is a translation in German that I obtained. Since the German variant has umlauts, I just copy/pasted it ...
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Undefined control sequence Error with moderncv+Hebrew
I would like to use modernv to create a right-to-left CV document in Hebrew. I have downloaded and installed culmus-latex, and Hebrew+English LaTex documents compile without a problem.
I took ...
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German hyphenation does not work
My babel configuration includes ngerman and english ...
\documentclass[
oneside, openright, titlepage,
dottedtoc, numbers=noenddot,
headinclude, footinclude=true,
cleardoublepage=empty, abstractoff,
...
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Problem with fancyref, babel and equation references
I am using fancyref and babel together in a LaTeX document and redefine the label for the equation references by \renewcommand{\frefeqname}{Eq.}, so that they look something like "Eq. (3.4)". However, ...
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Conflict between babel, hyperref and appendix package
While writing my thesis I use the hyperref and appendix packages like in the little example below.
test.tex
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix}
...
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What's the difference between ngerman and german in babel?
I use the following three packages to get correct German umlauts in the generated PDF:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % this is needed for umlauts
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % this is needed for ...
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Can't get babel and amsthm to play nice once Hebrew is loaded
I am working in LaTeX, and I am trying to get babel and amsthm to play nice together.
I produced a minimal example (which gives a different error than the full project, but getting this to work could ...
