who can fix babel-french incompatibility with crossreftools

[David Carlisle]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 18:28, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> you have to patch all macros where you need a colon with category 12,
> for instance:


I think it's better just to make the active : definition safe in
\label (by making it safe in a csname)

\let\zzz\active at prefix
\def\active at prefix{\ifincsname\expandafter\string\else\expandafter\zzz\fi}

should make all babel shorthand characters be protected by \string in
such constructs.

David


>
> \let\origlabel\label
> \def\label{\begingroup\catcode`\:12\inactivelabel}
> \def\inactivelabel#1{\endgroup\origlabel{#1}}
>
> This is a general problem with babel and nobody is able to fix all
> packages with all languages. If you are not forced to use babel,
> consider switching to XeLaTeX and polyglossia. You will not have so
> many problems.
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
> ne 13. 10. 2019 v 17:38 odesílatel Murray Eisenberg
> <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> napsal:
> >
> > Because babel-french makes the colon (:) an active character, the functions in the crossreftools cause errors with \label when the argument of \label includes a colon. See:
> >
> > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/511030/another-babel-french-incompatibility-with-crossreftools
> >
> > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/510591/babel-and-crossreftools-incompatibility/510641#510641
> >
> > Who can fix this? (I am unqualified: the TeX in crossreftools is well beyond my very rudimentary knowledge of pure TeX.)
> >
> > The package maintainer is Christian Hupfer, but according to his tex.stackexchange.com profile, he has stopped reading tex.stackexchange and “returned to the Black Forest."
> > ---
> > Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
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> >
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