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?
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 '14 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... – yo' Nov 2 '14 at 23:54\setlanguageis not ababelcommand. Please, provide a MWE. – Javier Bezos Nov 3 '14 at 6:59\AtBeginDocument{\let\frenchspacing\nonfrenchspacing}– egreg Nov 3 '14 at 8:46\addto\extrasenglish{\nonfrenchspacing}works fine. – cxxl Nov 3 '14 at 10:24\setlanguage{}is obviously a typo! But we need an MWE. – Sveinung Nov 3 '14 at 10:38