Hi everyone, on the Debian side we got a bug report concerning french.ldf.
Does anyone here with experience in French TeXnicalities have an opinion on that: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Denis Prost wrote: > Here is a sample tex file : > ------------ > %% LyX 1.6.5 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. > %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. > \documentclass[french]{article} > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} > \usepackage{babel} > \addto\extrasfrench{\providecommand{\og}{\leavevmode\flqq~}\providecommand{\fg}{\ifdim\lastskip>\...@\unskip\fi~\frqq}} > > \begin{document} > \noextrasfrancais > \begin{itemize} > \item bullet > \end{itemize} > > \end{document} > ---------------------- > when I process it with pdflatex from texlive-latex-base 2009-4 > (debian sid), the resulting pdf shows a dash instead of the bullet > that the \noextrasfrancais macro is supposed to produce. > After some investigations, I realized that simply replacing > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf with the one > from texlive-latex-base 2007.dfsg.2-4ubuntu1 solved the problem. > So it seems there's something wrong in the new frenchb.ldf file, > unless \noextrasfrancais is not supposed to work as it used to any > more ? Thanks a lot and all the best Norbert ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norbert Preining prein...@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TU Wien, Austria Debian TeX Task Force gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HUTLERBURN (n.archaic) A burn sustained as a result of the behaviour of a clumsy hutler. (The precise duties of hutlers are now lost in the mists of history.) --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
