I know that \frenchspacing is the way I ought to typeset documents today, but I happen to like the double spacing after periods. To enable them, I use \nonfrenchspacing. But if I use babel and issue a \setlanguage{} command, it resets frenchspacing again. Is there a way to set it once per document (and maybe language) so it doesn't get switched later on?
2 Answers
Latest releases provide some hooks which you can use for this purpose. If it applies only to a language or some of them, follow the procedure already explained:
\addto\extrasLANG{\nonfrenchspacing}
But if the setting applies to the whole document:
\AddBabelHook{nonfrench}{afterextras}{\nonfrenchspacing}
This line of code tells babel to execute \nonfrenchspacing after every \extrasLANG is executed.
answered Nov 3, 2014 at 17:11
The way how to add some declaration into a language setting is this (preferably in the preamble):
\addto\extrasLANG{\nonfrenchspacing}
where LANG is whatever you need: english, czech, ...
The way how to enforce \nonfrenchspacing everywhere is:
\AtBeginDocument{
\let\frenchspacing=\nonfrenchspacing
\nonfrenchspacing
}
\addto\extrasenglish{\nonfrenchspacing}(and the same for each language) should do, but it's difficult to say when you don't provide a MWE...\setlanguageis not ababelcommand. Please, provide a MWE.\AtBeginDocument{\let\frenchspacing\nonfrenchspacing}\addto\extrasenglish{\nonfrenchspacing}works fine.\setlanguage{}is obviously a typo! But we need an MWE.