Questions tagged [babel]
{babel} is the multilingual environment for LuaLaTeX, pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX (and sometimes Plain).
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Transliteration from cyrillic to latin script
How can I use babel transform to set a rule of translitteration in which a single cyrillic character corresponds to more than one latin character?
I can manage most of the letters (e.g. Б becomes B, Д ...
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Conflict between KOMA-Script (scrbook) and babel [czech] after MiKTeX update: "\@startsection" hook error [duplicate]
After updating MiKTeX (verified in MiKTeX Console, 2026-01-12), I encountered the following issue:
Minimal Working Example (MNWE):
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[czech]{babel}
\begin{document}
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Mixing LTR and RTL languages with lualatex, babel and \lettrine
The \lettrine command works as expected in documents written in monolingual LTR or RTL languages, but fails in multilingual documents in English and Hebrew as shown by the following example:
\...
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Undesired bold text in Bibliography with BibLatex
I'm using a template in Overleaf to make a mock article for practice, but it used natbib instead of biblatex so I attempted to replace the package and did all of the suitable replacements (like \citep ...
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Three fonts supports for polyglossia package?
The code is partially taken from egreg's this answer.
I want to typeset the following three languages with three fonts:
English: EB Garamond
Chinese: FandolSong
Greek: Old Standard
Noted that I want ...
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Incompatibility between KOMA-script classes and babel Spanish
While using [spanish]babel with a KOMA-script class (I've tried with scrartcl and scrbook) I get the following error:
LaTeX hooks: Generic hooks cannot be added to '\@startsection'.
How can I fix ...
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Hebrew letters appear as rectangles in the title of a beamer-rl presentation when the `hebrew` option is specified for the `\babelfont` tag
The following beamer document
\documentclass[babel={provide=*,layout=graphics.tabular},english,hebrew]{beamer-rl}
\babelfont{sf}{FreeSans}
\title{אבג}
\begin{document}
\frame{\titlepage}
\end{document}...
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The font "FreeSans" cannot be found
I'm trying to compile a LaTex document that I wrote several years ago, and that used to compile successfully with lualatex. The file and its preamble are very long, but I managed to cut them down to ...
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Native digits in babel without maparabic/mapdigits
I am just a small feature away from a release, but badly stuck with a babel conversion problem. I want to get the native digits of the "main" language wherever TeX provides numbers. For ...
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babel: adding hypenations for a language variant
In Belarusian we have several language variants and two of them are supported with Babel and Polyglossia. But hyphenation rules are made for default variant only and so they are used by both variants. ...
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Simulating language-related OpenType font features
In LuaLaTeX, is it possible to use babel (or anything else) to simulate some language-related OpenType features not defined in the font?
I give an example of what I mean:
Writing in ecclesiastical ...
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Hyphenation in slash constructions not working anymore
With the recent updates of the babel and the listings packages (for me that meant babel 25.14 --> 25.16 and listings 1.10c --> 1.11b), I encountered a change in the hyphenation behavior in my ...
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French spacing conflicts with cleveref
In this example I must choose between \cref{sec:bar} and French spacing (o/w disabled using \NoAutoSpace; I presume because sec:bar is read sec\thinspacing:bar. Is there a solution?
\documentclass{...
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Change figure caption from 1 to Abb. 1 (Fig. 1) with correct indentation in ToF? [duplicate]
Im trying to change the figure enumeration in the list of figures as many people have tried before me. The answer I most commonly read is by using
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{Abb. \arabic{figure}}
or
\...
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\setmainfont (missing characters) vs \babelfont (not all settings available)
(Disclaimer: if I am not mistaken, this question incidentally concerns transliteration of Sanskrit, but I know nothing about that language.)
The following MCE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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