[Tex/LaTex] French typography recommendations

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The French government publications office (Imprimerie Nationale) publishes a list of recommendations for French typography. I'm wondering how to implement some of these in LaTeX. I might actually come up with more later as I continue reading this booklet.

End of chapters/parts

In addition to the recommendations of removing footers on the last page of chapters/parts, it is recommended that these pages do not have less than 6 lines. I am guessing (it is not written) that if there are less than 6 lines, it is recommended to increase that number by forcing a page break in (one of) the previous page.

Hyphenation rules

No odd page should finish with an hyphenated word;
No more than 3 lines with hyphenated words should follow one another.

Best Answer

No odd page should finish with an hyphenated word;

\brokenpenalty=10000 will forbid any page (neither recto nor verso) from ending with a hyphen.

No more than 3 lines with hyphenated words should follow one another.

\doublehyphendemerits=1000000000 will strongly discourage two hyphenations in a row.

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[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex, French and pp.

Since french.lbx doesn't include pp\adddot anywhere, I suspect that the "pp." observed by you was caused by a bibliography entry featuring a hyphenation field with, say, english. And as henrique has stated, \DefineBibliographyStrings{french}{pages = {pp\adddot}} works indeed.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[english,french]{babel}

\usepackage[babel=other]{biblatex}

% \DefineBibliographyStrings{french}{pages = {pp\adddot}}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{A01,
  hyphenation = {french},
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
  pagetotal = {999},
}
@book{B02,
  hyphenation = {english},
  author = {Buthor, B.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {Bravo},
  pagetotal = {888},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\nocite{*}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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