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eFrench - French typography for LaTeX
Version 6.1 2019-03-08
e-French, FRENCHLE and FRENCH.
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The package e-french installed gives access to both
frenchle.sty and french.sty.
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Therefore the package with frenchle disapeard to be placed
under THE obsolete packages.
HISTORY from FrenchPro to e-French
The eFrench projet is born in order to keep up to date French for (La)Tex and
maintain it available for future users. FrenchPro for (La)Tex, is the result
of a fifteen years work of its creator, Bernard Gaulle
Beginning 1999, the FrenchPro package was marketted as shareware, and Bernard
Gaulle alone owner of all rights. He died Aug. 2nd 2007. His wife Catherine
Gaulle, the heiress, gave authorization in that matter to the eFrench group in
order to maintain the whole work in the future.
The project is maintained by a small group started by Laurent Bloch and hosted
by Tux Family: http://projects.tuxfamily.org/group.pl?name=efrench,
email: efrench@lists.tuxfamily.org.
The credit for this piece of work remains with
the first and main author, Bernard Gaulle.
LICENCE
Copyright 2010 eFrench Group
This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the
LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or
(at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license
is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later
is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later.
This work has the LPPL maintenance status «maintained».
The Current Maintainer of this work is Raymond Juillerat
(raymond -at- juil-dot-ch).
DISTRIBUTION
The distribution includes an unique package for both Unix (Linux, OSx)
or Windows operating systems. Compatibility have been tested
under MikTeX (2.8 and 2.9) and TeXLive (Ubuntu).
The user's manual is named efrench.pdf, documentation of french.sty
(source) is named french_doc.pdf. A FAQ explains the context in which
these packages are to be used.
** The install directory
Short documentations for beginners are written in
- in english: MiniDoc_Unx.txt for Unix,
MiniDoc_Win.txt for Windows
FilesInTDS.txt as further explanation
- in french : MiniDocEf_Unx.pdf for Unix,
MiniDocEf_Win.pdf for Windows
Because pdf better for languages using
non 7-bits accented characters like french.
** The french directory
The french directory with its content is to be placed in a correct
place in the Tex Directory Structure, normally under .../tex/plain
resulting in the branch .../tex/plain/french,
- see also FilesInTDS.txt in the install directory
** The doc directory
The documentation is provided with the sources as required under
LPPL agreement
- User's manuals are under "/manuels".
- Short documentation
- histoire.html is the history of french.sty written in french
an abstract is given in changements.html
- lisez-moi.html explains why this name "efrench"
- licence.html explains the licence-history (french and english)
In order to render non-ascii accented characters in french,
html instead text for these short documentations
MIGRATING FROM FRENCHPRO
No problem for the user. French.sty is the FrenchPro's version
with shareware test removed and updated to a new version.
MIGRATING FROM FRENCHLE
It is not neccessary to migrate, in e-french frenchle.sty is as
easy accessible as french.sty
But for a use with XeLaTeX please migrate to french.sty
If you migrate there are only these things to do:
- replace "frenchle" with "french" in the \usepackage calling it.
- if in use please rename frenchle.cfg to french.cfg and adapt it.
- Within it, please desactivate the things with french
guillemets (chevrons), if they were active.
DEVELOPMENTS FOR A BETTER COMPATIBILITY WITH XELATEX / BIBLATEX
The version 6.1 takes in account the the interchartoks used by
BibLaTeX with XeLaTeX. See the manual efrench.pdf under the
corresponding indexes.
Enjoy. Raymond Juillerat for the e-french group
raymond(at)juil(dot)ch
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