[tex-live] babel - problem

[Zdenek Wagner]

2008/9/11 Joanna Ryćko <typoagrafka at gmail.com>:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> thanks for your quick reaction:
>
> 2008/9/11 Jonathan Kew <jonathan at jfkew.plus.com>:
>> Hi Joanna,
>>
>> On 11 Sep 2008, at 2:45 PM, Joanna Ryćko wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I installed TL08 today under Win XP and I'm experiencing a big (for
>>> me) problem with the babel package. Everytime, I compile a file (with
>>> pdflatex), which loads the babel package (with any language-option) I
>>> get the following error:
>>>
>>> (c:/Programme/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
>>> Package: babel 2008/07/06 v3.8l The Babel package
>>>
>>> (c:/Programme/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/ngermanb.ldf
>>> Language: ngermanb 2008/07/06 v2.6n new German support from the babel
>>> system
>>>
>>> (c:/Programme/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def
>>> File: babel.def 2008/07/06 v3.8l Babel common definitions
>>>
>>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>>> \main at language ...bbl at main@language \bbl at patterns
>>>                                                 {\languagename }
>>> l.131 \main at language{english}
>>
>> Try rebuilding the pdflatex format file (fmtutil --byfmt pdflatex).
>
> It helped! Thanks!
> I actually did rebuild all the formats using the GUI, but it didn't
> help at all. What's the difference between rebuilding all the formats
> via GUI and rebuilding only pdflatex via command line?
>
It seems that GUI is confused by some relicts of old installations
while the command line is not. They should be equivalent.

> Joanna
>



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