When xelatex is building it's format file, it gets to loading latex.ltx. That contains<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
\InputIfFileExists{hyphen.cfg}<br> {\typeout{===========================================^^J%<br> Local configuration file hyphen.cfg used^^J%<br> ===========================================}%On 23 November 2010 10:03, Philip <br>
</blockquote><br>There are two hyphen.cfg files in TL2010, one for babel and one for luatex. <br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg<br>/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/hyph-utf8/hyphen.cfg<br></blockquote><br>They're more or less the same file; the luatex one has some additions specific to \ifx\directlua or \else. Xelatex loads the first. That's the babel one, and that's where the "Babel <v3.8l>" announcement in the XeLaTeX format comes from.<br>
<br>Dominik<br><br>Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Dominik Wujastyk wrote:<br>
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I've been puzzled for a while because my TL2010 distribution appears to<br>
load Babel by default very early in the format file.<br>
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E.g.,:<br>
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$ 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></div>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english,...<br>
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I don't think this started at TL 2010, Dominik; I have recollections<br>
of seeing Babel mentioned early in the log file in earlier releases,<br>
and in a sense it was part of what I looked for to see if TeX or<br>
LaTeX had been invoked.<br>
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** Phil.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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