[tex-live] Problem with \usepackage[latin]{babel}

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:17:59PM +0100, Bert Trüger wrote:

> when trying to compile
> 
> \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
> \usepackage[latin]{babel}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
>    Test
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> under Texlive 2007 I get the messages
> "[PDFLaTeX] Latein.tex => Latein.pdf
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/pdflatex)
> [PDFLaTeX] mit Status 1 beendet
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/latin.ldf:184:Undefined
> 
> control sequence. \addtoextraslatin
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/latin.ldf:184:Undefined
> 
> control sequence. \addtoextraslatin{\LatinMarksOff
> [PDFLaTeX] 2 Fehler, 0 Warnungen, 0 badboxes
> "
> 
> What's wrong? I am pretty sure this worked without errors under Texlive
> 2005.

TeX Live uses the versions on CTAN, and latin.dtx (latin.ldf)
2005/11/17 v2.0g misses a backslash:
  \addtoextraslatin --> \addto\extraslatin

I have made a LaTeX bug report for you: babel/3922.
And I will update latex-tds.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>