[OS X TeX] odd behaviour amsart+babel

[Herb Schulz]

On 11/9/04 12:56 PM, "Gerben Wierda" <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl> wrote:

> On my system, this file does not compile at all:
> 
>> $ pdflatex babeltest.tex
>> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>> output format initialized to PDF
>> entering extended mode
>> (./babeltest.tex
>> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
>> Babel <v3.8c> and hyphenation patterns for american, british, french,
>> german, n
>> german, catalan, dutch, spanish, nohyphenation, loaded.
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/amscls/amsart.cls
>> Document Class: amsart 2004/08/06 v2.20
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
>> For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd)
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/amsfonts/amsfonts.sty))
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
>> 
>> ! Package babel Error: Language definition file anylanguage.ldf not
>> found.
>> 
>> See the babel package documentation for explanation.
>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>>  ...
>> 
>> l.134 \ProcessOptions*
> 
> So, please show us the log of this run on your system and we'll see
> what is different.
> 
> G
> 

Howdy,

You've got to replace [anylanguage] by a valid language, e.g., [english]. I
got the same thing before I realized that anylanguage.ldf means that there
is no language definition for anylanguage.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)

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