I want to disable babel's shorthands in my own sty file.
But since I can use \shorthands{off} only inside the document environment, I struggle with this.
Is there a way to disable babel's shorthands in the preamble already?
4 Answers
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\let\LanguageShortHands\languageshorthands
\def\languageshorthands#1{}
\begin{document}
"`foo"'
\LanguageShortHands{ngerman}
"`foo"'
\end{document}
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In the babel.sty the shorthands are loaded if \pdfstringdefDisableCommands is not defined. Is it another way to define it to switch off shorthands initially? Sep 15, 2011 at 12:19
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that is related to
hyperref– user2478Sep 15, 2011 at 12:33
Babel 3.9 now provides a package option to deactive shorthands at once:
\usepackage[shorthands=off,ngerman]{babel}
Their functionality are still available with \babelshorthand.
answered Apr 1, 2013 at 11:10
There is a beta package babeltools, to be loaded before babel, that plans to allow this, with the addition of selectively enabling some shorthands.
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Others have looked at a babel-only way in the past without complete success (e.g. http://uucode.com/blog/2005/10/04/avoiding-babel-shorthands/, coming from a CTT discussion http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/5fbd187d7807fd3d/6456d8adaa925a94?pli=1) but I don't know if that has been looked at more recently. Given the recent writing of
babeltoolsand its inclusion in TeX Live, perhaps not?– masSep 15, 2011 at 10:46
Yes, just use PassOptionsToPackage before documentclass like this:
\PassOptionsToPackage{shorthands=off}{babel}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\begin{document}
"`foo"'
\LanguageShortHands{ngerman}
"`foo"'
\end{document}
\AtBeginDocument{...}