{shorthands} is about the language-specific special active characters (e.g., for quotation marks and {hyphenation} characters) of the {babel} package.
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babel: Adding ngerman' s language shorthands to english as the main document language
The (n)german language option of the babel package provides various shorthands related to hyphenation, e.g. "-: "an explicit hyphen sign, allowing hyphenation in the
rest of the word" (manual, section ...
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babel shorthand "| doesn't work in macros
The package babel with the ngerman option (and most other languages as well, but not english) provides the shorthand "|, which prevents a ligature at the given position (see p. 81 of the babel ...
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“ with tipa and babel's ngerman / \shorthandoff{”} in a macro
TL;DR see below at "core problem"
Problem
I'm trying to solve a conflict between the packages tipa (Fonts and macros for IPA phonetics characters) and babel with the ngerman option. The problem ...
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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'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}
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Shortcuts using double quotes in combination with mathspec
Basically, I have encountered the same error as answered here and the workaround suggested by Andrey Vihrov reenables me to compile the document. The problem now is, that any shorthand defined by the ...
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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.
