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I have noticed a strange behaviour when switching between the packages german and babel with the german option. There is obviously a difference in how "= is handled in the preamble:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{german}
\title{Some"=Thing}
\begin{document}
\maketitle 
Some"=Text.
\end{document}

yields the following result:

while the following code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\title{Some"=Thing}
\begin{document}
\maketitle 
Some"=Text.
\end{document}

does not handle the "= in the \title{} command correctly:

What is the reason for this behaviour? How can I make the babel package behave like the german package? (I have to switch from german to babel because some packages like fancyref use the wrong translations if only german is used.)

vwegert
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  • \shorthandon{"} and later back off again \shorthandoff{"} – Johannes_B Feb 03 '14 at 17:52
  • Place \title after \begin{document} (which is what I always recommend, contrarily to others). On the other hand, hyphenating the title shouldn't be allowed. – egreg Feb 03 '14 at 17:55

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