[tex-eplain] Babel problem

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

I tried (with Eplain, of course)

\beginpackages
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\endpackages

but this gives the following error:

This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./Mini_A.tex
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, bulgarian, russian, ukrainian, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-
06-18, german, ngerman, loaded.
(./ETPLib.tex) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/plain/plgraph/miniltx.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/ngermanb.ldf
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def
! Undefined control sequence.
\bbl at patterns ...er \ifx \csname l@#1:\f at encoding 
                                                  \endcsname \relax \csname ...
l.131 \main at language{english}
                             

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Many thanks for a hint,

Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany