French babel package affects indentation in nested lists

Question

I noticed that adding

\usepackage[french]{babel}

line (into a basic article document, for example) affects indentation of nested enumerate lists (possibly itemize too). The indentation becomes noticeably shorter than before. Using babel with English does not have this effect.

Is this related to some French typography rules?

What would be an easy way to restore default indentation of nested lists?

Answer 1

You should use the \frenchsetup command. In the following example the lists are reset to the default style:

\documentclass{book} 
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\frenchsetup{
   StandardItemizeEnv,
   StandardEnumerateEnv,
   StandardItemLabels,
   StandardListSpacing}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}
 \item One 
 \item two
\begin{enumerate}
 \item One 
 \item two
 \item Three
\end{enumerate}
 \item Three
\end{enumerate}

\begin{itemize}
 \item One 
 \item two
 \begin{itemize}
  \item One 
  \item two
  \item Three
 \end{itemize}
 \item Three
\end{itemize}
\end{document}