{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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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votes
2answers
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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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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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votes
2answers
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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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\tableofcontents encoding issue with lualatex
I have a issue when trying to generate table of contents with lualatex in russian. Following example fails to build with ! Undefined control sequence.
\contentsname ->{\cyr \CYRS \cyro \cyrd \cyre ...
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votes
1answer
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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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votes
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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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1answer
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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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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}
...
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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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votes
1answer
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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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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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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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votes
2answers
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Fix nested section numbers in RTL languages with polyglossia.
The third subsection in the second subsection of the first section should be numbered
1.2.3. This holds also for RTL languages, since numbers, including Dewey numbering is still LTR even in an RTL ...
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votes
1answer
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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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votes
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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 ...
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votes
1answer
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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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votes
1answer
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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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0answers
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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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votes
1answer
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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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votes
1answer
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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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votes
1answer
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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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votes
3answers
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Disable babel's shorthands
I want to disable babel's shorthands in my own sty file.
But since I can use \shorthands{off} only inside the document environment, I struggle with this.
Is there a way to disable babel's shorthands ...
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votes
1answer
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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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votes
3answers
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biblatex: Switching languages for *citations* according to the bibentry's “hyphenation” field
Quoting from section 3.1.2.1 of the biblatex manual:
[The babel] option controls which
language environment is used if the
babel package is loaded and a
bibliography entry includes a
...
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votes
1answer
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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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vote
1answer
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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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0answers
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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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votes
1answer
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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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2answers
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No hyphenation patterns were loaded for the language
I'm using babel package for spanish language. However, each time I compile my document, the package babel throws me a warning:
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel) ...
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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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Test if a package (or package option) is loaded
[french]{babel} (aka frenchb) is incompatible with some other packages, such as tikz, since it tries to insert \thinspace before semi-colons.
In order to make these two play nice, you have to call ...
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votes
1answer
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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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votes
1answer
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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
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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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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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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 ...
