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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 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 “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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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German quotation marks are broken in XeLaTeX

Although I known nothing about German, I have to complie some German TeX documents. The German quotation marks "' or \grqq and "' or \grqq in my document are replaced by cmr font and the PDF file is ...