French internationalisation, override babel default spacing

Question

I'm writing my thesis paper in French. In the document I use the name of the ISO27001:2005 norm name, and by babel conventions this is rewritten as ISO27001 :2005 with a extra space before the semicolon.

The behaviour is expected in all the document but not when I write this name.

What is the best way to tell the engine to ignore default formatting rules and write the : without extra space?

Ulrike Fischer · Answer 1 · 2011-11-29T15:28:18.757

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\newcommand\ISO{ISO27001:2005}
\begin{document}
ISO27001:2005

ISO27001\string:2005

{\NoAutoSpacing ISO27001:2005} %needs frenchb.ldf version 2.5f

{\shorthandoff{:}ISO27001:2005} 

\ISO
\end{document}

edited Nov 29 '11 at 15:28

answered Nov 29 '11 at 13:42

Ulrike Fischer

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@Ulrike NoAutoSpacing works only with frenchb.ldf version 2.5f and not with the version of TL2011 – Alain Matthes Nov 29 '11 at 13:58
@Altermundus: Yes you are right. I had completly forgotten that I had a new version laying around im my test folder. – Ulrike Fischer Nov 29 '11 at 15:27

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '11 at 13:40

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You can use \shorthandoff{:} before the code and \shorthandon{:} after

answered Nov 29 '11 at 13:40

Alain Matthes

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Ulrike shows in this code the use of TeX's group. With a group, it's possible to avoid the use of \shorthandon – Alain Matthes Nov 29 '11 at 13:51

Mico · Answer 3 · 2012-08-06T01:35:58.073

The user guide for babel provides the following recommendation for locally suppressing the extra space that's inserted (when the frenchb option has been set) before :, ;, !, and ?: Insert the instruction \string immediately before the respective characters.

The following MWE shows how this works:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\begin{document}
ISO27001:2005

ISO27001\string:2005
\end{document}

French internationalisation, override babel default spacing

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