Questions tagged [french]
{french} is about typesetting and conventions relating to the French language.
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french accents problem
I have an existing file which i converted using doc2tex. When i open the file in MikTeX windows this is what i get:
"rarement int\'{e}gr\'{e}s dans les programmes scolaires `{a} travers
le monde ...
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How to modify the appearance of some types of entries in the formatted bibliography?
I have to replace the mention In with Dans in the @inbook field of my bibliography, in order to follow some french rules. How could I do that? Thanks a lot!
This is an entry:
@inbook{AnnieAnzieu2010,...
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French hyphenation in plain TeX - plain TeX for french
I use plain TeX and work in french, how can I load the correct hyphenation patterns?
How can I modify INITEX in order to get a stable "french plain TeX"?
I would prefer not to go to LaTeX for that and ...
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French spacing disappears within commands
I am preparing a document in French, using the "babel" package with option "french" and using commands that include colons and semicolons. My problem is, the French spacing before colons and ...
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French Theoremstyle
\documentclass[french]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\theoremstyle{...
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Foreign accents in \document{res}
I get an error every time I try to type
Dipl\^ome
Accents such as in
\'ecole
work fine.
I use
\documentclass[margin]{res}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsfonts,...
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Package selinput Error: Cannot find a matching encoding
I am trying to write a CV in French using moderncv package, and every time I compile the file it gives me the following error: Package selinput Error: Cannot find a matching encoding. Here is the code ...
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Why is the character & replaced by “et”?
\documentclass[french,12pt,fleqn,a4paper,twoside,openright]{book}
\newcommand{\chaptertoc}[1]{\chapter*{#1}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1}
\markboth{{#1}}{{#1}}}
% Set the beginning of a LaTeX ...
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French words with memoir demo chapterstyle
I am looking for an easy solution to have the chapter numbers written in French words while using the \chapterstyle{demo} with the memoir class. If I use \chapterstyle{default}, the word "chapter" is ...
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Babel's automatic spacing seems to disappear in \href when the target is an URL [duplicate]
Babel provides automatic spacing around some characters for French, but hyperref's \href command seems to mess that up in certain particular contexts. See this example:
\documentclass{minimal}
\...
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accented characters error
I'm writing with french language.
Document and chapters title are okey but the main text like this:
Here the used packages:
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{...
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accented letters, page numbering and lines duplicated
I have 3 problems:
Some accented letters don't work:
The page numbering: I want to start from a specific page and not from the beginning of file.(\setcounter{page}{1} does not work for ...
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2answers
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KOMA-Script and \captionformat
I am using the class scrartcl to set an article which includes figures. I want the figures to have arbitrary titles, without a "Figure n:" in front of them. According to the KOMA-Script manual, I ...
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Bad space in quotation with csquotes and polyglossia
I use xelatex processing command and I want to obtain a specific result using the \enquote or \textquote commands of the csquotes package.
The main language of my document is french and I must obtain ...
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How to get/suppress french spacing before punctuation in `\href`
Attention I have already a possible answer and will add it soon. I thought it would be useful to have a solution about it on the site. (Other answers are naturally welcome too).
Question How to ...
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french characters commands do not work
I'm using the CV template of Debarghya Das (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/deedy-resume/sqdbztjjghvz#.Wc4HfBOCzVp). I'm preparing my CV in French then I need to use French characters. The ...
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Display partname in memoir class with babel and French
I would like to have the \partname (Part) display in the table of content.
Example:
Part II: This is the title of my part 2
instead of
"II This is the title of my part 2"
For now, I use this:
\...
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Why is a single inline French quote with csquotes causing all the following punctuation to have extra spacing? [duplicate]
I'm pretty new to LaTeX, so take it easy on me. 🤣
I'm trying to include a (single) French phrase in a (short, simple) document — and I want to get it right, more as a learning exercise, than because ...
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TexnicCenter Spelling
I start using TexnicCenter (2.02 stable) as an editor to write LateX files. During the installation I make sure to install different languages dictionaries especially the french one.
When using ...
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2answers
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acmart + [french]babel = confusing warning about caption
When processing
\documentclass{acmart}
\usepackage[french,american]{babel}
\begin{document}
Some text.
\end{document}
pdflatex spits out the following warning:
Package frenchb.ldf Warning: Please ...
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\encl{} with multiple lines in lettre class
I use lettre class for French letters and, in the \encl{} I need to specify multiples lines.
This is my MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{lettre}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\...
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Reledmac & indextools : Indexing a word inside a critical note problem
I'm really sorry to bother you, but I have a small problem with reledmac and indextools.
I'm doing a thesis editing an old French manuscript. I am using several layers of critical notes and doing two ...
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French characters in TeXworks
I'm writing a long article using TeXworks, and I realize I have used poorly chosen notation or names for several notions that appear throughout the document.
I would like to avoid spending three ...
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Translate the \byline command output in french
I would like to create a newspaper article and I found the command \byline to include my title and my name. The problem is that I need to publish my article in French and the command displays the ...
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Redefine French bibliography string “visité le ” by “page consulté le” in biblatex
I tried
\DefineBibliographyStrings{french}{
urldate = {page consultée le},
}
in Overleaf but I'm getting this error
Package xkeyval Error: `urldate' undefined in families `blx@lbx'.
I'm ...
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Using inputs both in utf8 and latin1
Issue
I am writing a document in utf8 but I have to include some files encoded in ISO-8859 which are crashing my build.
Indeed, I am using [utf8]{inputenc} which works great for all my files but does ...
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How to get “Dans” in place of “IN” in bibliography latex
I am writing my thesis in french and I need to put bibliography in french.
I am using this style \bibliographystyle{plainnat-fr}.
@inproceedings{ref1,
title={Learning from Synthetic Data Using a ...
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votes
1answer
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lastpage for french
Does someone know, why the package lastpage doesn't work for french?
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage{french}
\usepackage{helvet}
\usepackage{...
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1answer
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Char encoding problem in listlisting
I would like to use listlisting and post commented source code in french. This is the complete document :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings,xcolor}
%% Langage et police utilisée
\...
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french: Add \usepackage{fontspec} to the preamble of your document
Consider the input
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[french,main=american]{babel}
% \usepackage{fontspec}%%% Doesn't matter where you use fontspec
\begin{document}
Nothing.
\...
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TeXStudio: disable internal shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+X) [closed]
I'm using a french keyboard with a bepo layout which makes great use of the AltGr key modifier.
Unfortunately, some of TeXStudio's shortcuts use the Ctrl+Alt modifier. I managed to disable almost all ...
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2answers
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Bibliography latex in french
I am using \bibliographystyle{plainnatfr} to generate references. For example,
@inproceedings{cohen2003inference,
title={Inference of human postures by classification of 3D human body shape},
...
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Remove space in front of simple question mark in: (?)
Following, french typographic rules, LaTeX inserts a space in front of a question mark ?. No problem.
However, for the following sequence, (?), LaTeX sets a space in front of the question mark and is ...
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curly apostrophes in fancyvrb verbatim environments
I am actually using the fancyvrb package to have verbatim environments with working commands inside.
I am also using the cmun.ttf font (computer modern unicode font), with XeTeX.
When I am using this ...
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Package inputenc Error: Unicode char (U+2060)(inputenc) not set up for use with LaTeX
To write French in my Latex documents, I've added "\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}" to the preamble.
This statement prints the following error in different parts of the log file:
Package inputenc Error:...
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Missing french.ldf [closed]
I am unable to compile any Latex file in french, I always get an error message relating to the babel package.
Apparently in the log file, it says the file french.ldf is not found and thus babel ...
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Package exercise: change “exercise” to French “exercice”
I am preparing a homework for my students with LaTeX, so I used \usepackage{exercise}. In the .pdf file I got "exercise" and I want it to be in French (exercice) not English.
I put \usepackage[...
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Polyglossia: equivalent to \NoAutoSpacing?
I use polyglossia in XeLaTeX with the french language.
When I type verbatim text, with \verb|...|, the space before a : is not removed. For exemple, I get http :// for web URLs...
In Babel, I could ...
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2answers
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XyMTeX problem with for French
I want to use XyMTeX to draw some chemical structrures, but because I am French, I need to add \usepackage[francais]{babel} in order to be able to use accents. My problem is that with this package, my ...
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1answer
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Replacing words in a table automatically
I am currently working on a paper for an economics course. I need to produce, among other things, summary statistics. As I am working on Stata, I picked the sutex command and outputted the tables in ...
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Space inside French guillemets
Here is my source:
\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{french}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{"}
\begin{document}
Je n'ai rien à dire --- mais je le dis ...
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Prevent line break before :
Here is my minimal code:
\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{french}
\begin{document}
Bonjour tout le monde. Si je vais au bout de la ligne, je vais avoir cela :...
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PDFLatex Printing Preview - French Cursive environment
I wanted to had a maxime to my latex book.
Here is document viewed with Evince
here the document viewed with the preview application in printing windows of Evince
here the document viewed with ...
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Problem with babel [duplicate]
I can't understand the way babel works (or, more precisely, doesn't) in the following example. The command \sujet is supposed to create a new command named \sujeti, which in turn is supposed to print ...
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Using multibib and natbib for French bibliographies
I want two separate bibliographies in my work. I have used the package multibib to create my bibliography. The problem is that I am using natbib because my bibliography style requires it (francais.bst ...
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bibliography option in French
I wonder if it is possible to get a complete French bibliography? For example, even if French accents can be used in bibtex, the categories still are in English.
In French, edition is "édition". I ...
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French Bibliography [duplicate]
Could someone help me to write a bibliography in french? I tried many codes for this site (copy/paste in a separate document) and I always get errors.
e.g.
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How do I make PythonTex accepts french accent? [closed]
I have some strings to print using PythonTex.
With strings in english, no problem. E.g., I can use string like "a string of char printed using python" and it works
\pyc{print("a string of char ...
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Why does polyglossia read hyph-fr.pat.txt twice?
Consider the following snippet:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{french}
\begin{document}
Test
\end{document}
Compile with luatex shipped with TeXLive 2016, you get ...
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Incompatibility between french babel and fnpct \multfootnote
I would like to use babel with the french option and the multiple footnotes provided by the fnpct package (\multfootnote). But when I do, only one footnote is created instead of multiples.
\...
