[OS X TeX] Problems with Babel package.

[Tore Haug-Warberg]

Hi Bruno,

Your remarks make perfectly sense, I should indeed make no changes to the 
teTeX distribution, but I've tried every option (including the one posted 
where I really did change the "language.dat" in a terminal window). 
However, what do you mean by "recompile your LaTeX format"? This is maybe a 
stupid question, but coming from a Windows world your term is new to me.

Tore.

At 04:31 PM 3/11/02 +0100, Bruno Voisin wrote:

>>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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