I've been puzzled for a while because my TL2010 distribution appears to load Babel by default very early in the format file.<br><br>E.g.,:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
$ xelatex<br>This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2010)<br> restricted \write18 enabled.<br>**\relax<br>entering extended mode<br>LaTeX2e <2009/09/24><br>Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge<br>
rman-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabi<br>c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danis<br>h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french,<br>
galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, hungarian, icelandic<br>, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, marathi, oriya, panja<br>bi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kurmanji, lao, lati<br>
n, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portu<br>guese, romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedis<br>h, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.<br>
<br>*<br></blockquote><br>saying \listfiles shows only<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> *File List*<br> article.cls 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class<br>
size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)<br> ***********<br></blockquote> <br>so the call to babel must be in the fmt setup. Will try to find it later today.<br><br>Dominik<br>