[Tex/LaTex] Any other way than Babel package

babellanguagespolish

I have a complex PhD thesis temlate. I need to include a polish (second) abstract, but the hyphenation look terrbile. All the rest of the document is in english. When I try Babel package, Im getting an option clash.

\PassOptionsToPackage{english,polish}{babel}

is also not working:

"! LaTeX Error: Command `\lll' already defined."

Best Answer

For mysterious reasons, polish.ldf has

\let\lll=\l \let\LLL=\L
\def\plll{\lll}
\def\pLLL{\LLL}

and, of course, this should be something like

\let\polish@l=\l \let\polish@L=\L
\def\plll{\polish@l}
\def\pLLL{\polish@L}

This is used in some places in order to restore the meaning in case something changed it.

Solution for your problem:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[polish]{babel}

\makeatletter
\let\polish@l=\lll \let\polish@L=\LLL
\let\lll\relax \let\LLL\relax % undefine them
\def\plll{\polish@l}
\def\pLLL{\polish@L}
\makeatother

\usepackage{amssymb}

In your case, the babel package is loaded by the class, so the language options must be given to \documentclass:

\documentclass[
        12pt, % The default document font size, options: 10pt, 11pt, 12pt
        english, % ngerman for German
        polish,
        singlespacing, % Single line spacing, alternatives: onehalfspacing or doublespacing
        headsepline, % Uncomment to get a line under the header
]{MastersDoctoralThesis} % The class file specifying the document structure

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Required for inputting international characters
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Output font encoding for international characters
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}

\makeatletter
\let\polish@l=\lll \let\polish@L=\LLL
\let\lll\relax \let\LLL\relax % undefine them
\def\plll{\polish@l}
\def\pLLL{\polish@L}
\makeatother

The rest is the same as in your code.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel}
\useshorthands{"}
\addto\extrasenglish{\languageshorthands{ngerman}}
\begin{document}

\minipage{1cm}\hrulefill

\hspace{0pt}zoning-facilitated

\hspace{0pt}zoning"=facil"-itated
\endminipage
\end{document}

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With lualatex you do not need the \hspace{0pt} (LuaTeX hyphenates the first word of a paragraph, which TeX doesn't)

[Tex/LaTex] Using Babel inside the own package produces option-clash error

Here's something you can play with:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[paperwidth=9cm, paperheight=10cm, showframe]{geometry}
\parindent 0pt%
%\usepackage[american, british]{babel}
%\usepackage{datetime}


\def\germtoday{% Example format: Date Month Year
\number\day\space
\ifcase\month\or
Januar%
\or Februar%
\or März%
\or April%
\or Mai%
\or Juni%
\or Juli%
\or August%
\or September%
\or Oktober%
\or November%
\or Dezember%
\fi
\space\number\year}

\newcommand\germanaffidavit{
  \begingroup
  \language=31%
  The language is \the\language. {\germtoday}

%  \showhyphens{% Useful to test how words are being hyphenated
  This text will be in Language stating the same information as the
  Language one above.  Of course this should automatically use
  correct hyphenation for Language texts.
%  }
  \endgroup}

\newcommand\englishaffidavit{%
  \begingroup
  \language=0
  The language is \the\language. \today

%  \showhyphens{%
  This text will be in Language stating the same information as the
  Language one above.  Of course this should automatically use
  correct hyphenation for Language texts.
% }
  \endgroup}


\newcommand\affidavit{\germanaffidavit\newpage\englishaffidavit}


\begin{document}
The language is \the\language

This text will be in Language stating the same information as the
Language one above.  Of course this should automatically use
correct hyphenation for Language texts.

\newpage
\affidavit
\newpage
The language is \the\language

This text will be in Language stating the same information as the
Language one above.  Of course this should automatically use
correct hyphenation for Language texts.

\end{document}

Remarks

When switching babel off, compile twice to get rid of the error message.
I'd be inclined to use a custom date command to avoid dependency on other packages for getting it 'right'; what I suggested here is meant to be illustrative of the possibilities, not definitive or even standards-compliant.
Uncomment the \showhyphens command to verify that TeX is hyphenating things correctly (note that the output gets printed in the .log)