Hello,

is it possible to disable babel's shorthands? I found the
"\shorthandoff{chars}" command, but:

* I should know all the shorthands characters in advance, and
* If I provide a non-shorthand character, then I get an error in
terminal.

I generate LaTeX-files automatically, and I'd like to avoid hard-coding
all the language-shorthands mapping into the script. Any better ideas?

Thank you.

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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:46:38 +0200, Oleg Paraschenko <ole...@gmail.com>  
wrote:

The following doesn't really disable them but it does make them expand to  
the harmless representation of the character in question. Is that what you  
want?

\makeatletter
\def\active@prefix#1#2{%
   \ifx\protect\@typeset@protect
     \string#1%
   \else
     \ifx\protect\@unexpandable@protect
       \noexpand#1%
     \else
       \protect#1%
     \fi
   \fi}
\makeatother

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Morten

Hello Morten,

thanks for the suggestion. I've finally implemented a solution, which
is also based on hooking babel internals:

[lessbabel.sty]
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{lessbabel}[2005/10/04 Babel without shorthands]

\DeclareOption*{\PassOptionsToPackage{\CurrentOption}{babel}}
\ProcessOptions\relax
\RequirePackage{babel}

\def\bbl@activate#1{}
[/lessbabel.sty]

My documents now use

\usepackage[english,german]{lessbabel}

instead of

\usepackage[english,german]{babel}

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