Although I was glad to discover that biblatex integrates with babel for bibliography formatting, I might have found a bug that prevents it to work with idem (not ibidem) entries. Same goes with biblatex-dw (e.g. footnote-dw style), verbose*, historian and probably with any biblatex style. I keep getting a space before punctuation in citations managed with the idem tracker although the collins* bib entries have langid = {english}. Is there a workaround against this or should it be reported as a bug? Thanks.
I think I am up do date with biblatex version 2.8.
Example with style=historian,
\documentclass[french]{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{file.bib}
@BOOK{collinscha,
title={Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice},
publisher={University of Chicago Press},
year={1992 [1985]},
author={Harry Collins},
edition={New},
langid={english}
}
@BOOK{collinsoth,
title={another book title with same author},
publisher={na},
year={9999},
author={Harry Collins},
langid={english}
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage[english,ngerman,frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=historian,backend=bibtex8,autolang=hyphen]{biblatex}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{french}{namedash={---------}}
\addbibresource{file.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{collinscha}.
\cite{collinsoth}.
Formating error: see how babel french made-up a space before the colon.
\cite{collinscha}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
gives,
Example with style=verbose-trad1,
\documentclass[french]{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{file.bib}
@BOOK{collinscha,
title={Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice},
publisher={University of Chicago Press},
year={1992 [1985]},
author={Harry Collins},
edition={New},
langid={english}
}
@BOOK{collinsoth,
title={another book title with same author},
publisher={na},
year={9999},
author={Harry Collins},
langid={english}
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage[english,ngerman,frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=verbose-trad1,backend=bibtex8,autolang=hyphen]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{file.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{collinscha}.
\cite{collinsoth}.
Formating error: see how babel french made-up a space before the colon.
\cite{collinscha}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
gives,