[tex-live] clash between babel (french), hyperref and \cite on keys with a colon character

[Herbert Voss]

Am 22.09.2014 um 16:16 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
> 2014-09-22 16:10 GMT+02:00 Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at fu-berlin.de>:
>> Am 22.09.2014 um 15:44 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
>>> There's a clash between babel (french), hyperref and \cite on keys
>>> with a colon character. This can be seen on:
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>> \usepackage[french,english]{babel}
>>> \usepackage{hyperref}
>>>
>>> \begin{document}
>>>
>>> The following link does not work due to the space before the colon,
>>> added by babel in French:
>>> \selectlanguage{french}
>>> \cite{foo:bar} (foo:bar)
>>
>> ":" is an active chracter in french. Make it inactive before using it:
>>
>> \selectlanguage{french}\shorthandoff{:}
>> \cite{foo:bar} (foo:bar)
> 
> If you do this, the colons will not be typeset correctly in the text.

sure, the reason why you need a \shorthandon(:) after \cite ...

Herbert


> If only \cite needs inactive colon, the following is bette (after
> loading all packages)r:
> 
> \let\origcite\cite
> \def\cite{\begingroup \catcode`\:12 \mycite}
> \def\mycite#1{\engroup \origcite{#1}}
> 
> This is just a quick hack...
>> ...
>>
>> Herbert
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The following link works:
>>> \selectlanguage{english}
>>> \cite{foo:bar} (foo:bar)
>>>
>>> \newpage
>>>
>>> \selectlanguage{english}
>>> \begin{thebibliography}{1}
>>> \bibitem{foo:bar} Foo bar.
>>> \end{thebibliography}
>>>
>>> \end{document}
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> This should really be fixed without requiring the user to use some
>>> workaround. For instance, couldn't babel redefine \cite to locally
>>> make the behavior like in English?
>>>
>>> This bug is particularly annoying since using colons in bib keys
>>> seems to be common.
>>>
>>
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