Questions tagged [french]
{french} is about typesetting and conventions relating to the French language.
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Problem with hyphenation in Ubuntu ( No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for french babel)
I have a problem when compiling a latex document in Ubuntu (18.04). I am using TeXmaker et MikTeX. The message is
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for
(babel) the ...
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How to resize columns of a table?
I'm a beginner in Latex and I have used a table in my document. This is a part of the code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{ragged2e, ltablex, booktabs, makecell}
\...
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Saint abbreviation
I would like to know if there is a way to abbreviate "saint" in this french way. A dash is also commonly used.
My researches are unsuccessful at this point, thanks in advance.
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Conflict using french babel resulting in bibliography refs appearing in smallcaps [duplicate]
I wanted to re-run my thesis and while I changed nothing (nor the file format, the bib file or anything), all my references in the text now appear in smallcaps. I suspect there is a conflict with the ...
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Modify the authors field of article class (authblk package)
I am puzzling how I can modify the author field in article class when using the authblk package. I am writing an article in French. The following code
\documentclass[french,11pt]{article}
\...
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Add a space between the word and the colon in description
In French, colons are always placed after an unbreakable space. However, babel does not implement this rule. How to correct that?
\documentclass{amsart}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\begin{document}
...
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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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Keep lowercase in biblatex
I have a little issue, my bibliography (using Biblatex, biber) is written in upper case
while I did note specified anything (I think), and I'm not
happy with this.
Here is a little example :
\...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
