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Maurice
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ellipticalarc (pictex) and babel

Post by Maurice »

Good day,

I'm novice in LaTeX. I use MikTeX and TeXnicCenter.
I have to translate documents from English into French. Figures are drawn with pictex.
The original file compiles well, but as soon as I use the babel package (Frenchb) the compiler reports fatal errors concerning ellipticalarc.
Is that a known problem or have I missed something?

Maurice

test files are accessible at
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http://pageperso.canl.nc/mstarck/stuff/amcsec.sty
http://pageperso.canl.nc/mstarck/stuff/S16_test.pdf

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Maurice
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Re: ellipticalarc (pictex) and babel

Post by Maurice »

Solved by Alain Delmotte

In French one needs to redefine the behavior of ":" and "!".
One solution is to put before the pictex code
\shorthandoff{:} and after \shorthandon{:}
to get back the normal management of ":" in French.
If there is till an error, try with \shorthandoff{:!} \shorthandon{:!}.
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