Questions tagged [french]
{french} is about typesetting and conventions relating to the French language.
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French spacing in plain tex / optex
I've seen the answer here for Latex. How can I adapt this to plain TeX or OPTeX?
\frlang
\fontfam[Times]
{
\catcode`\:=\active
\catcode`\;=\active
\catcode`\?=\active
\catcode`\!=\...
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"et" instead of ampersand "&" for French biblatex-apa
I'm using BibLaTeX (APA) in French and I have one little problem:
When I have only two authors, they are cited with the conjunction symbol & whereas I would like the grammatical French conjunction ...
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ConTeXt : TikZ foreach interaction with french module
The \foreach statement in TikZ is shifting the coordinates in my ConTeXt figures ; after some experimentation, I found it to be caused by the two instructions \usemodule[french] and \...
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Why \frenchsetup is no more defined when using \babelprovide
I try to compile this very small LaTeX code which used to work but is no more:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\babelprovide[main,import]{french}
\frenchsetup{ItemLabels=\textendash,og=«,fg=...
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Babel+french: incompatible with cref and colon in name
If I use colons in \cref{sec:mysection} then it fails to compile when I use the french babel. I can remove the colons in the section names, but this feel a bit dirty. Any other option?
MWE:
\...
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Is It Possible to Produce Old French Drop Caps Like These with Latex?
I have come across these drop caps a book published in 1883 in Lyon, France---
Is it possible to produce these drop caps such as these with Latex? I have not been able to find them available anywhere....
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Biblatex : replace "In" by another entry in APA style [duplicate]
I would like to put the strings like "In" in french (so "Dans") in a APA bibliography with biblatex.
I tried to use the answer of this post, it works until I put the biblatex style ...
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Ignore spaces, including ~
The title says it all, how can I ignore spaces, like \ignorespaces does, but including a ~ ?
The reason I ask is we are multiple authors writing a document, and they have different habits with respect ...
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biblatex style with just commas and date at the end?
I have a very basic question. I need to have a biblatex style that fits the requirements from a French publisher.
In a nutshell :
mostly commas between elements of the reference, no points, no ...
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Display \ref results with small caps roman numerals (French typographical rules)
According to French typographical rules, chapters heading have to be in Roman numerals caps and references to chapters have to be written with small caps Roman numerals. Modifying chapter headings is ...
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L'Circonflexe Accent --- How to Adjust Its Height
With certain fonts (e.g., Cabin), I have noticed a difference in the relative positioning of certain accent marks---to the point where sometimes, it seems to me that an adjustment is in order.
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How to facilitate inclusive writing in french?
When I write in french I often have to use the inclusive form:
The students did their homework.
Les étudiant·e·s ont fait leurs devoirs.
However, it is not easy to get a good-looking example with ...
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Amsmath package and overleaf
I have been using LaTeX (on the Overleaf platform) for a few years now, mainly in article and report class. Since I’m studying physics, I’ve more or less used the same packages for every new document ...
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Trying to modify the appearance of a description environment
I have to do something like this but I don't know how to do it. I tried with \newcommand and \newenvironment but it seems that it's the wrong solution
if you have any idea please tell me.
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How to Extract the Three First Letters of Current Month in French without Accented Characters?
Is there a way to extract the 3 first letters of the current month in French but WITHOUT acented characters AND with the first letter capitalized - e.g. Fev for Février (February in english) - AND ...
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How to Produce the Acute Accent When Using the a Font from the Sqrcaps Package
Consider the code which I compile with xelatex:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{sqrcaps}
% I COMPILE THIS CODE WITH XELATEX:
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\LARGE
\...
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When a Period Immediately Follows the Lettrine --- A Typography Question
Because of the usual manner in which the French word Monsieur is abbreviated, I have often encountered a chapter beginning something like this:
M. Nom
In typesetting such (making use of a lettrine), I ...
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Is there a command to correctly abbreviate the French ordinal « second »?
I cannot find any command available in a LaTeX package to produce the abbreviated version of the words second/seconde/seconds/secondes, when dealing with ordinals in French, as I would use for other ...
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Unwanted space before Polyglossia's \textlatin in a \begin{french} environment with XeLaTeX
Unwanted space appears before Latin language text inside an outer French environment when using Polyglossia. This does not happen when the outer environment language is English.
In my example, when ...
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Latex : Bibliography in french - plainnat-fr
I am using the following template https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-a-project-report-or-memoire/zcgzvcmrsxsb
Moreover, I am using plainnat-fr for styling the bibliography, as I ...
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How can I use a roman font for capital letters in math mode when using plain TeX?
The French style (see the frenchstyle option of the LaTeX kpfonts package) is to typeset capital letters in math mode in roman rather than in italic.
How can I achieve that in plain TeX without having ...
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Problem of spacing with numprint and newtxmath packages
I have a problem of spacing and it seems to come from these two packages.
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{...
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How to make uppercase roman letters upright in ConTeXt?
Using \setupmathematics[ucgreek=normal], one can force uppercase Greek letter to be upright.
How to do the same with Latin letters? The words ucroman and uclatin do not appear on the ConTeXt wiki.
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Best Alternative to Approximate the Sqrcfamily Font Which Seems Not to Recognize Accents
I would like, for example, to type the French word Pens{'{e}}es with the sqrcfamily font; however, it seems that the sqrcaps package cannot handle accents.
MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{...
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How to typeset French quotation marks in plain TeX?
How to typeset French quotation marks in plain TeX?
<<~This is the {\LaTeX} way.~>>
I might need to use European Computer Modern (or Latin Modern?) but I'm not sure how to do so.
user227615
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Use of \thedots@ doesn't match its definition. Problem with the French package
I have a fairly complicated document in English, typeset using kaobook.
For my abstract I need to add French and adding french to the line
\usepackage[main=english, ngerman, french]{babel}
results in ...
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Problem reading file with french language in babel
When reading a temporary file, I get an error when switching to french (comment/uncomment documentclass):
Runaway argument?
testcolor;testtext \\\textbf {\ChangesIncolor \ -- \ChangesIntext }\fi \ETC.
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How to type œ and ç in LaTex and Markdown?
I used to solve the problem of typing Dutch letters by $\acute{e}$, $\ddot{e}$ and so on. And I get by. But now that I need to type some French, I can't get away with œ and ç. What's the most handy ...
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Conflict between amsmath, FrenchPro and cleveref
I'm hitting a conflict between amsmath, e-french and cleveref that causes equation references to be undefined. Here's a minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{...
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How do you typeset '‿'s and 'x's inbetween words for French liaisons?
I want to typeset a French document with the grammar marked. Example:
Je suis‿en seconde.
I also want to have a small 'x' in between two words when a liaison is impossible and add parenthesis around ...
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Goodies for colored french accents
I save this font file as example :
-- file pagella.lfg
return {
name = "pagella",
comment = "Goodies that complement pagella.",
colorschemes = {
default = {
...
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Index \see command not italicized in french document
I'm using imakeidx and polyglossia packages, main language: french.
I have a nice small index with some \see commands. But the word “voir“ (“see“ in french) printed in the document is not in italics.
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How to handle colon in macro when using babel for french? [closed]
I've recently encountered a problem when trying to combine
\usepackage[french]{babel}
and
\graphicspath{{c:/Users/...}}
A problem then appears when I try to use \includegraphics (although it ...
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Longtable with multicolumn and multirow issues
I tried to build a "complex" table of a certain size but still have some problems with the multicolumn. As you can see on the attached images, in the table I want to have in the first column ...
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How to translate "and" into "et" within a French bibliography?
I have a document in french language that uses bib references. This is why is use the babel package with the french option. However, the bibliographical references still contain the "and" ...
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Natbib sorting with approximative (circa) years
The context is that I have to cite some old sources (music manuscripts) whose date is only approximative. The simple solution is to have this as "ca. 1710" or whatever is the approximative ...
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Changing babel package inside the same document
I am currently writing my Ph.D. thesis in French and English. Following the procedure that I found here Changing babel package inside a single chapter, I have divided the document into two parts, one ...
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How to change title column style in numbered tcolorbox boxes?
I use some tcolorbox boxes, created using \newtcbtheorem with the option auto counter on so that they come with automatic numbering. That works fine, but in my language (French), there should be a ...
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Typography of nested quotations
In the case of nested quotations, we have the following rule in French typography: if two or more closing quotation marks follow one another, we will write only one closing quotation mark.
Thus:
« ...
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How to fit parentheses (Guillemets) into a single line in LaTeX
I'm looking for a way to process parentheses so that they don't come at the end or beginning of a line.
The typography of parentheses in French (« ») doesn't like to isolate either of the parentheses ...
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Space before semicolons (French) in natbib citations
In French, you can find a space before and after a semicolon. How can I add a space before the semicolon in multiple citation calls-out?
I specify that I am using the french version of the babel ...
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spurious indent combining standalone, french, itemize and verbatim
I have an indentation problem that I finally solved adding \usepackage{enumitem} but I can't understand the reasons why the problem happened in the first place and got solved using enumitem. I nailed ...
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RMarkdown french accents/special characters
I want to use the LaTeX syntax for writing french accents/special characters in RMarkdown, but it doesn't work. \'{a} for instance doesn't compile but is literally printed in the pdf document. So far ...
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Unable to change quote type in french
I'm using csquotes and writing in French. I'd like to set the quotation marks as they are in english, and I don't want to use this method ``. I tried changing the variant but it always gives me ...
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How can I write an Arabic word using ABNtex2 with package french and Brazil babel [closed]
When I introduce the polyglossia package I have the message
Undefined control sequence. \begin{document}
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XeLaTeX, nohyphen, space and babel/polyglossia
Consider this MWE
\documentclass[french]{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\begin{document}
\section{without relax}
Cambridge : University (A)
\nohyphens{Cambridge} : University (B)
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Siunitx comma as separator in unit exponent
I'm writing a report in French in which I want to display units with non-integer exponents:
\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\begin{document}
\sisetup{locale=FR}
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Tell LaTeX to use one command in one situation, a different one in another
In French, we write century numbers as the century number in Roman numerals, small caps, followed by e in superscript. As I use this a lot, I have created a command for it:
\newcommand{\siecle}[1]{\...
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Document language messing with line spacing
I'm new to LaTeX. I need my document in French. I need things like "Table des matières" instead of "Contents", "Chapitre" instead of "Chapter"...
From some research, I've added french in
\...
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prettyref bug when used with babel-french
I'm writting in French so I use babel. I'd like to use prettyref to keep from writting "Section" and co.
The problem is that I can not use it with French babel. It throws me:
! Paragraph ended ...
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