[OS X TeX] Using Babel with I-Installer tex installation

[Claus Gerhardt]

Remove babel.sty from your personal texmf. Babel.sty already resides in
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty

Claus
On Jun 29, 2005, at 16:53, Frederick Hoyt wrote:

> Allow me to respond to both Bruno's and Pete's postings at once.
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> On Jun 29, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
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>> - Remove the [english] option alltogether (it's the default anyway).
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>
> It works when I do this. However, this is not a solution because  
> there are other language definitions files which I do need to use.
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>> - Retype the line <snip> completely.
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> This didn't make any difference.
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>> - Try using [american] or [USenglish] instead.
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> This didn't either.
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>> - Verify /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/generic/config/ 
>> language.dat looks allright.
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> The language.dat file seems to be in order.
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> On Jun 29, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
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>> Could we see a bit more of your log and of your TeX file?
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> Here is all the non-commented text in the .tex file:
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> > %&program=xelatex
> > %&encoding=UTF-8 Unicode
> > \TeXXeTstate=1
> > \documentclass[10pt,openany]{article}
> >
> > \usepackage[english]{babel}
> >
> > \begin{document}
> >
> > Hi there.
> >
> > \end{document}
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> Here is the log file up to the point of error:
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> > This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)
> > entering extended mode
> > (./xearab.tex
> > LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> > Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, british,  
> nohyphenation, loaded.
> > (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> > Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document  
> class
> > (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> > (/Users/fmhoyt/Library/texmf/tex/latex/misc/babel.sty)
> >
> > ! LaTeX Error: Unknown option `english' for package `babel'.
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>> When did you last run sudo texhash?
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> Last night, and again this morning for good measure. It does not  
> make a difference.
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> I will try re-installing tex and making sure that the hyphenation  
> patterns are installed correctly.
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> Thanks,
>
> Fred
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> Frederick M. Hoyt
> www.livejournal.com/users/frederickhoyt
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