{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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French and English text in one document with a single style of footnote
I have a book containing essays variously in English and French and wish hyphenization and other aesthetic issues to match whatever language is in use at the moment, but I want footnotes to follow a ...
4
votes
0answers
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Removing spaces before command
When using French guillemets with TeX4HT, the resulting symbols are not followed/preceded by non-breaking spaces like they should, resulting in wrong line-breaking in HTML.
I tried resetting \og and ...
4
votes
1answer
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babel, beamer problem: refuse name change to part
I wanted to change the name in my beamer slide from Part to Theme.
So in the Google BOK if found:
\renewcommand*{\partname}{Theme}
I could not get to work. Then I start to switch off (%) ...
2
votes
1answer
871 views
How to change my bibliography title using bibtex and miktex 2.9
I have a problem changing the title of my bibliography using bibtex and miktex 2.9.
I've read varius sources already and tried different things, but the answer that popped up most and should be ...
12
votes
1answer
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Hyphenation exceptions not loaded when using babel with multiple languages
When I use babel with more than one language loaded, my hyphenation exceptions are not used. Here is an example:
====== hy.tex =======
\hyphenation{para-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane}
====== ...
7
votes
2answers
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Conflict between nag and babel spanish
The following code gives me loads of Font csname csname T1/cmtt/m/sc/10endcsname not found errors.
\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
...
12
votes
3answers
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Why does the package babel[french] destroy \@for loops?
Why does this minimal example code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[francais]{babel}
\begin{document}
\def\names{Toto,Titi,Tete,Tutu}
\makeatletter
\@for\next:=\names\do{\textbf{\next} }
...
3
votes
1answer
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How to make \ref references include the word 'Figure'? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Table, Figure, and Listing prefixes
Automatically inserting “Section, Subsection, etc”
I'm using the package hyperref.
When referencing my figure, I ...
2
votes
2answers
260 views
Replace the “AND” between authors' names in citations and references with its equivalent in another language, e.g., Spanish
I have been using the achicago package and the babel package for spanish language. When I employ the two, references with multiple authors are shown in the citations like (Mukange and Manamela) but it ...
6
votes
2answers
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Appendix in LaTeX
I have the following document:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage[spanish,activeacute]{babel}
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix}
\begin{document}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
...
4
votes
1answer
654 views
Memoir appendix
At the moment I have Appendix A when I start the appendix page. In the table of contexts I see the item A. How can I replace the "A" by "Appendix". I'm using the memoir class and I'm also using babel ...
6
votes
2answers
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best practice international template
I would like to have a template which can be internationalised (i.e. is suited for latin script languages) and uses the microtype package. I suppose that we therefore need the following packages:
...
4
votes
3answers
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Something's wrong with tocloft
I want the right margin of TOC to be straight. Instead of this Latex violates the bound (Pic. 1). If babel is commented out (with the last \addcontentsline), the result is still buggy (Pic. 2). ...
3
votes
1answer
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Beamer crashes with babel Turkish package
I just started to learn beamer and noticed that the problem in \usepackage[turkish]{babel} and \includegraphics inconcistency question applies for beamer and \shorthandoff{=} solution does not work. ...
2
votes
1answer
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Tilde in author field changes S letter with Estonian babel
Bibtex generates fallowing code to bbl file.
\bibitem{Bell_1964}
J.~S. Bell, \enquote{On the {Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen} paradox,} Physics
\textbf{1}.
and similarly
\bibitem{BellSpeakableAndNot}
...
3
votes
1answer
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problem with biblatex-chem bundle, babel, and inbook entry
I'm writing my thesis in French, and thus use the package babel. I have chosen the "chem-angew" bibliography style, and all is good so far, except for citations of chapters in books.
Here is my bib ...
2
votes
2answers
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“Table des Matières” instead of “Table of Contents”
Currently, I write a report in LaTeX.
Everything goes well except a small problem that bothers me really. The report is written in English except for a summary in French that has to be written in ...
0
votes
0answers
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My lstlisting environment only shows “2” above the first line, instead of numbers before each line, when Hebrew is enabled [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
backgroundcolor in lstset does not work
I've recently changed my document skeleton and now my code segments, defined with \begin{lstlisting}...\end{lstlisting}, changed ...
4
votes
3answers
247 views
English minitoc entry within a Greek utf8 document
In a document set up as shown in the question Greek pdf bookmarks, the interesting bits are:
\documentclass[greek,english]{scrbook}
\usepackage[LGRx,T1]{fontenc} % define LGR and T1 encodings
...
3
votes
1answer
433 views
Conflict between my modified .sty file and babel's ngerman? [closed]
There is some conflict or error I don't understand. I can skip it and nothing visible happens. The output is okay and everything seems to be fine. Still I would like to get rid of the error message. ...
2
votes
1answer
216 views
Scaling tikzpicture with Babel spanish package
I have the following code:
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix,shapes,arrows,positioning,chains}
...
3
votes
1answer
1k views
Problem with using scale while using \includegraphics [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
\usepackage[turkish]{babel} and \includegraphics inconcistency
I previously imported many figures to TEX files and simply use the corresponding parameters without any ...
7
votes
2answers
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Why does media9 need babel?
I wonder why the media9 package, a new replacement for movie15, needs babel? And what will happen if I would want to load polyglossia instead of babel as it is required for XeLaTeX to compile Russian ...
6
votes
4answers
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Error when using \begin{RÉSUMÉ}
I write a paper in French, I add a package \usepackage[english,francais]{babel} to use a French but when I write:
\begin{RÉSUMÉ} abstract in french \end{RÉSUMÉ}
I get the error:
! LaTeX Error: ...
8
votes
2answers
915 views
babel with russian and english language
I need to use Russian in my article, but the default language has to be English.
How do I do this?
I use:
\usepackage[russian]{babel}
Result: all chapter names and date are in Russian.
Change ...
8
votes
3answers
488 views
babel's hyphenation-friendly hyphen "= in multiple languages
Why doesn't the hyphenation work with multiple languages? See code:
\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
...
7
votes
1answer
202 views
Babel + Hebrew + lipsum incompatibility
With:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hebrew,english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}
You get:
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
...
1
vote
0answers
580 views
Loading hyphenation patterns in Texmaker [closed]
I've got problems making TexMaker / MikTeX 2.9 use polish hyphenation rules. As from what I've read on this forum (e.g. here), babel package should automatically load polish hyphenation rules after ...
1
vote
1answer
127 views
Dashes and hyphens in Hebrew
I'm trying to use hyphens in a Hebrew document, but they do not appear in the resulting file. I've created this example to test the error. It seems only the unicode en-dash letter renders correctly ...
8
votes
2answers
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lualatex error with Brazilian Portuguese babel option
It seems that lualatex does not known the Brazilian dialect of the Portuguese language with the babel package.
When compiling the simple document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[brazil]{babel}
...
4
votes
1answer
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Changing “prefixes” in the Harvard bibliography
I am using the harvard-package for the bibliography of my reports, who are written i Norwegian. In my preamble i have the babel-package.
However, when I use i.e. the @inbook entry in my .bib-file, ...
7
votes
2answers
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enumitem conflicts with galician
The following code:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[galician]{babel}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Preguntas ...
4
votes
1answer
339 views
Problem with spanish and babelbib
I'm not an English native speaker. All the documents I write are in Spanish. To handle this I use some packages like babel and babelbib for bibliographies. However, this can cause some troubles of ...
19
votes
1answer
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Why does babel not work in Tikz?
Adding child nodes to child nodes in TikZ Mindmap has some example code, where German words are not hyphenated correctly. I was trying to fix it by using inputenc (for Umlaute) and ...
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votes
1answer
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Babel in ConTeXt(LuaTeX)
I am interesting in ConTeXt(LuaTeX) but my biggest problem is that I could not translate a simple program from LuaLaTeX, that uses babel, to a corresponding ConTeXt(LuaTeX) one. The code is the ...
5
votes
1answer
315 views
Language dependent custom command
I would like to define a command that slightly differs depending on the currently selected language in my document. My code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english,french,german]{babel}
...
11
votes
1answer
431 views
Why is babel loading all these languages?
The following document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\begin{document}
Something
\end{document}
Produces the following .log file:
Running `LaTeX' on `mwe' with ``pdflatex ...
0
votes
0answers
143 views
Letters are being scrambled - prcject instead of project [closed]
I am using the moderncv package and funnily, some words are being differently printed than the source is, for example prcject instead of project. It is quite funny how many documents you can find on ...
8
votes
1answer
520 views
How can I make AUCTeX spell check in the language specified by babel and csquotes macros?
It is possible to make AUCTeX load the spelling dictionary of the language which babel is loaded with. One further convenience would be for it to appropriately react to changes of language within a ...
11
votes
2answers
244 views
Using breakable hyphen "= in \newcommand
I want to use a breakable hyphen "= in a command:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\newcommand{\TT}{Test"=Text }
\begin{document}
This is a test whether the hyphen in \TT ...
8
votes
1answer
612 views
How can I make AUCTeX use the spelling dictionary in the same language as babel is loaded with?
Is it possible to setup AUCTeX so that it loads the spelling dictionary in the same language as the language used by babel? For example, is it possible to load the Danish ispell dictionary when a ...
5
votes
1answer
217 views
AUCTeX's csquotes integration does not work together with babel
I use the AUCTeX feature to expand " into csquotes macros. To enable it I have put the following in my .emacs:
;; " expands into csquotes macros
(setq LaTeX-csquotes-close-quote "}"
...
3
votes
2answers
1k views
Problems typing in Russian (MiKTeX)
I'm trying to make a LaTeX file in Russian. I wrote the following in the preamble:
\usepackage[cp1251]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[russian]{babel}
However, when I try to make ...
10
votes
2answers
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Right-to-left text in LaTeX - reversed numbers and parentheses
Finally I got my Hebrew working on LaTeX.
Everything's working great except for two issues - numbers and parentheses. Numbers are written the other way around (one hundred would be written 001), and ...
6
votes
2answers
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How to use non-breaking space (~) with \usepackage[spanish]{babel}?
I just realized that when I \usepackage[spanish]{babel} I can no longer use ~ as a non-breaking space before n or N.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[spanish,notilde]{babel}
...
14
votes
2answers
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Extra space behind month for \today with \usepackage[norsk]{babel} in December
When using \today and \usepackage[norsk]{babel} (babel <v3.8l>) in December there is an extra space behind the month name. How do I get around this?
\documentclass{article}
...
5
votes
2answers
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babel \L command reverses letters, inserts Ł symbol
It's time for Eyal's babel+Hebrew (or right-to-left) incompatibility of the week; and this time, it's hyperref again.
If you have:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hebrew,english]{babel}
...
4
votes
3answers
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Babel[french] adds \ier commands, why doesn't Babel[english] add \th?
I recently realized that when called with the option [french], the babel package adds a number of useful commands such as ier{} for "1er" read "premier", \no or \degres.
Yet it seems to get similar ...
9
votes
2answers
592 views
Multiple-language document - babel - selectlanguage vs begin/end{otherlanguage}
What's the difference in babel package, between :
\selectlanguage{languageA}
and
\begin{otherlanguage}{languageB}
Text in language B.
\end{otherlanguage}
?
I'd like to write two langauge ...
5
votes
3answers
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French internationalisation, override babel default spacing
I'm writing my thesis paper in French. In the document I use the name of the ISO27001:2005 norm name, and by babel conventions this is rewritten as ISO27001 :2005 with a extra space before the ...
