Questions tagged [french]
{french} is about typesetting and conventions relating to the French language.
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Memoir class - I would like to have footnotes without indentation on the first line, but no formatting options seem to work
I am using the memoir class and I am trying to get rid of the space before footnote marks. I would like to have the whole paragraph as a block, without indentation on the first line.
I tried changing ...
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XeLaTeX+polyglossia+french+biblatex complain about missing character (U+200B)
Note to inattentive users: please stop asking if Unicode char {U+200B} answers my question.
When using biblatex with XeLaTeX and polyglossia-french, I get the following error which seems to come from ...
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APA7 Oxford comma again
although I have looked for the solution on several other posts, I definitely fail to remove the Oxford comma before the "&" separating the last author (only when the order is "Name, ...
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french numbering on tikz graphics
would you how can I display French numbers on charts created in tikz?
By default, only English numbers appear, even with the babel package and SIunit's Group-separator.
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French accent on Elsevier documentclass
I seemes to me that the questions asked here about this do not work properly in my case.
I have:
\documentclass[preprint,12pt,authoryear]{elsarticle}
\journal{Carbon}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{...
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How to remove small capitals in citation, and keep them in the bibliogrpahy, when using biblatex with biblatex in french?
With XeLaTeX, when I use [backend=biber, style=authoryear-icomp, dashed=false]{biblatex} together with \usepackage{polyglossia} then \setmainlanguage{french}, the citations and references are written ...
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French quote in quotation environnement for sociological verbatims
I want to do exactly the same you can find here : The Quotation Environment :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{quoting,xparse}
\NewDocumentCommand{\bywhom}{m}{% the Bourbaki trick
{\nobreak\...
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French guillemets in English document
Is there a way to get French guillemets (like here: French guillemets specific look) without changing the language to French?
I would like to use them in an English document.
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Error while running pgfplots along with babel (French)
I am trying to prepare a beamer presentation in French (using the babel package). In my presentation there is a histogram generated using the pgfplots package. This is my code:
\documentclass{beamer}
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csquotes' French guillemets unexpected within hyperref's \href argument with (pdf|lua)latex
In the following MWE relying on csquotes, " is used as quote which prints outer quotation marks, with French guillemets for the output.
\documentclass[french]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\...
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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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