3 >Synopsis: babel doesn't deactivate characters
4 >Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 1 16:21:05 1999
5 >Originator: chambert@math.jussieu.fr (Antoine Chambert-Loir)
6 >Release: LaTeX2e <1999/06/01> patch level 1
8 Hyphenation: Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german, dumylang, nohyphenation, loaded.
9 \@TeXversion: undefined (Standard setting for TeX3.141 and later)
11 \input@path: undefined (Standard setting)
14 Compatibility problems between babel/frenchb and xypic hinted
15 me to the fact that, apparently, active chars are not desactivate
16 by babel when un-selecting french style and switching back
19 I added the following lines to my frenchb.cfg
21 % Activation, desactivation (ACL, 9 dec. 1998)
22 \addto\extrasfrenchb{%
29 \addto\noextrasfrenchb{%
36 and I would like to have comments from the noble TeX community
39 They permit do compile matrices in XYPic if one carefully
41 \[ \english \xymatrix{...} \]
42 or, maybe better, redefines
43 \let\oldxymatrixcompile\xymatrixcompile
44 \def\xymatrixcompile{\english\oldxymatrixcompile}
52 \documentclass{article}
55 \FORMAT{LaTeX2e<1999/06/01>}
56 \AUTHOR{chambert@math.jussieu.fr (Antoine Chambert-Loir)}
58 \PACKAGE[arrow,matrix]{xy}
59 \PACKAGE[frenchb]{babel}
63 \setbox0=\vbox{#1}\showbox0}
66 \usepackage[arrow,matrix]{xy}
68 \usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
73 \testit{\[\xymatrix{ 0 \ar[r] & X } \]}