To Philip Taylor, thanks for your answer, but it doesn't appear to work: it
even blocks pdf generation with babel/xetex which was working previously.
To Peter Dyballa, I'm not sure I follow you here...
All my references are in English anyway, so I'm perfectly fine with having the
whole bibliography with english typography rules (The only problem is then the
bibliography chapter being automatically called "Bibliography" instead of
"Bibliographie", which would look weird as all my chapter titles are in
French). But I digress.
Polyglossia/xetex and babel/pdftex produce real errors (that block the
generation of the pdf) when I cite the references in the main body of the text.
I want this main body of text to follow French typography and hyphenations
because it is well... in French. This specific problem is there because the
actual code used to reference papers (the thing I put inside \citep{})
contains a colon (not the title). So the problem I have is above mere
typography details in the bibliography.
Le 16 sept. 2010 à 12:08, Peter Dyballa a écrit :
>
> Am 16.09.2010 um 11:22 schrieb Pierre Morel:
>
>> The problems arise when I cite a paper in the French text, such as "french
>> french french \citep{Author:year} french french french". I could surround
>> each \citep command by \selectlanguage{english}...\selectlanguage{french},
>> but it's certainly not elegant !
>
> Not always. The declaration as French would only be needed in cases when TeX
> would hyphenate non-English words at the wrong places. (That's mainly what
> Babel or Polyglossia are needed here – except, you want certain characters
> mixed into cited titles, names, and years appear according to French
> typography rules. Non-French bibliographies often don't pay so much attention
> here.)
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
>
> The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter,
> must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass
> him in intelligence.
> – Ernst Mach
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