who can fix babel-french incompatibility with crossreftools

[David Carlisle]

oh ^^ yes of course that isn't available if you change the catcode of
^ (but ^^ shouldn't be appearing in \label anyway)
I was referring to your comment about active hyphen and active
characters for utf 8 accented latin etc.

David

On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 23:09, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> po 14. 10. 2019 v 0:01 odesílatel David Carlisle
> <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> napsal:
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 22:39, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > this is not just a problem of French, Czech and Slovak activates a
> > > hyphen, Latin has active characters, Slovak even activates ^ which
> > > makes sequences like ^^A and ^^cd unavailable (and it cannot be solved
> > > by \string). I am afraid that many other clashes can occur.
> > >
> > >
> > If they are babel shorthands defined by the babel declarations so
> > their active definition starts with \active at prefix
> > I do not see why the code that I suggested should not work. As you see
> > there is nothing specific to : or French in the suggested addition.
> > If you have an example where it does fail I'd be happy to have a look
> >
> It is only a problem with ^^ notation. Your solution works "in  TeX's
> stomach" but in order to make ^^ work properly, two adjacent
> characters with category 7 must be seen "in TeX's mouth". I am afraid
> that ^ is activated in several languages. If such a language package
> is loaded and the language is not currently active, then ^ expands to
> ^ with character 7 so that it works properly in math but it is to late
> for ^^. Other puctuation characters can be used in \label, \ref,
> \cline, \hline, \hhline and here your solution will work (I hope).
>
> > David
>
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
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