Option to enable Babel's shorthand

[SG-phimeca]

Babel shorthands are disabled in the latex default template in order to avoid some side-effects.
I would rather deal with those side-effects than change the way I input punctuation (I write in French).
Would it be possible to add an option for re-enabling babel shorthands?

The new way of diabling shorthands (#6817) makes it harder to re-enable it with a monkey patch without using a custom template.

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[jgm]

Probably this is a wont-fix, but perhaps @lygamac has some ideas about how we might make this easier for you.

[lygamac]

Maybe adding

\let\languageshorthands\LanguageShortHands

to your header file might help. This undoes the redefinition. As no extra option are passed in babel package, shorthands are enabled by default.

[SG-phimeca]

Thanks for the suggestion @lygamac. Unfortunately the code in the header is inserted before the paragraph that disable the shorthands, namely:

% get rid of language-specific shorthands (see #6817):
 \let\LanguageShortHands\languageshorthands
 \def\languageshorthands#1{}

This is what I meant by “The new way of diabling shorthands (#6817) makes it harder to re-enable it”

[lygamac]

Try

\AtBeginDocument{\let\languageshorthands\LanguageShortHands}

[SG-phimeca]

Nice, it works. I did not knew about \AtBeginDocument

[jgm]

I'll close this. Good workaround!