The babel-french package (formerly known as frenchb')

Description

This package provides support for the French language for the babel multilingual system.

It is designed to work with the following engines: pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX. Plain and LaTeX formats are supported.

Contents

The bundle consists of the following files:

• frenchb.ins: installation file to unpack the language definition files,
• frenchb.dtx: packed language definition files and documentation,
• frenchb.pdf: unpacked documentation for babel-french,
• frenchb-doc.pdf: comprehensive documentation in French,
• frenchb-doc.tex: source file of frenchb-doc.pdf,
• README.md (this file).

License

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3 or later See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

Installation

If the latest version of this package is not included in your LaTeX distribution, do the following:

• issue "luatex frenchb.ins" to unpack the language definition files;
• copy the files frenchb.lua, french.ldf, frenchb.ldf, francais.ldf, acadian.ldf and canadien.ldf to a location where TeX can find them (default location: $TEXMF/tex/generic/babel-french/);
• rebuild the database (mktexlsr or so).

Documentation

See the included manuals for usage instructions: frenchb.pdf in English or the French documentation frenchb-doc.pdf.

Changes

See the included manual frenchb.pdf, section "Change History".

Copyright 1996–2023 Daniel Flipo E-mail: daniel (dot) flipo (at) free (dot) fr