[OS X TeX] Problems with Babel package.

[Bruno Voisin]

> I've tried to uncomment the line starting with "%norsk nohyph.tex" in 
> file "language.dat" in folder 
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/generic/config, and have checked that 
> the file "nohyph.tex" exists in folder 
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen, and that the files 
> "norsk.ldf" and "norsk.sty" exist in folder 
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel. However, I am 
> suspicious that Babel never reads from "language.dat"! Anyone who can 
> help me on this?

Two remarks:

1) The file 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/generic/config/language.dat has 
precedence over 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat

2) Rather than modifying any of these files (I'm not even sure you can 
actually modify them - apart from by logging in as administrator in a 
terminal window -, since they are in a read-only directory), it would be 
simpler to copy 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/generic/config/language.dat to 
~/Library/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat, and modify this copy. 
Any file inside ~/Library/texmf is read before those in the teTeX 
distribution.

Then you need to recompile your LaTeX format. I'm not sure how to do it 
>from the command line, but running Gerben's teTeX installer should 
perform this I think.

Bruno Voisin


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