[Tex/LaTex] Babel: Add german language shorthands

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I want to use the German language shorthands provided by babel with other languages; the main language of the document is German.

In following MWE the shorthands "= and /"" don't work when the English language is selected; uncommenting \useshorthands{"} doesn't have any effect.

I tried this with pdflatex of TeXLive 2014 and 2016.

(Reversing the order of the languages in the option list of babel has the desired effect, but I want to have German as the main language)

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[english,ngerman]{babel}
%\useshorthands{"}
\addto\extrasenglish{\languageshorthands{ngerman}}

\begin{document}
erster/""zweiter Teil \\
Bindestrich"=Wort

\selectlanguage{english}

first/""second part\\
Hyphen"=Word

\selectlanguage{ngerman}
erster/""zweiter Teil\\
Bindestrich"=Wort
\end{document}

Best Answer

It works for me with

\addto\extrasenglish{\languageshorthands{ngerman}\useshorthands{"}}

Code:

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

\begin{document}
erster/""zweiter Teil \\
Bindestrich"=Wort

\selectlanguage{english}

first/""second part\\
Hyphen"=Word

\selectlanguage{ngerman}
erster/""zweiter Teil\\
Bindestrich"=Wort
\end{document}

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\minipage{1cm}\hrulefill

\hspace{0pt}zoning-facilitated

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\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] Write a class with language dependent strings

The spanish option is not passed to the class, to begin with.

I don't think you really need to have class options for this, however. Here is zunbeltz.cls:

\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1999/12/01]
\ProvidesPackage{zunbeltz}[2012/10/22 v0.1]

\providecommand*{\conclusionsname}{Final conclusions}

\AtBeginDocument{
  \@ifpackagewith{babel}{spanish}{%
    \addto\captionsspanish{\renewcommand*\conclusionsname{Conclusiones finales}}%
  }{}
  \@ifpackagewith{babel}{english}{%
    \addto\captionsenglish{\renewcommand*\conclusionsname{Final conclusions}}%
  }{}
}


\DeclareOption*{\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{report}}
\ProcessOptions\relax

\LoadClass{report}

and here the test document zunbeltz.tex:

\documentclass{zunbeltz}
\usepackage[english,spanish]{babel}
\begin{document}
\conclusionsname

\selectlanguage{english}
\conclusionsname
\end{document}

You'll get

Conclusiones finales
Final conclusions

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