[tex-live] Polyglossia breaks XeLaTeX

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/9/1 Haines Brown <haines at histomat.net>:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 06:59:56PM +0200, Lars Madsen wrote:
>> On 09/01/2012 06:16 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> >2012/9/1 Haines Brown <haines at histomat.net>:
>> >>On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 03:39:20PM +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>> >>>the supplied evidence shows that your document definitely breaks under
>> >>>pdflatex, but then polyglossia requires xetex, so it's no surprise.
>
>> have you tried converting it manually without relying on an editor.
>> As Zdenek mentions, the log looks strange
>
> Here again is the test document preamble (first line changed fom xetex
> to XeLaTeX):
>
>   %!TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
>   %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>
>   \documentclass[12pt,titlepage]{article}
>   \usepackage{xltxtra}
>   \usepackage{xunicode,fontspec}
>   \usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,sorting=nyt]{biblatex} %
>   \usepackage{polyglossia} % conflicts with csquotes, fullpage, and biblatex.
>
> I run the xelatex command from a terminal and get:
>
I am not sure whether biblatex works with polyglossia. Anyway, some
packages may be confused by aux file from a previous unsuccessful run.
Delete the aux file and try again. If it does not help, you should
contact biblatex and polyglossia maintainers.
>   ...
>   (/home/haines/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex)))
>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>   <argument> blx at lng@\bbl at main@language
>
>   l.35 \begin{document}
>
>   ? s
>   OK, entering \scrollmode...
>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>   <argument> blx at file@\bbl at main@language
>                                        .lbx
>   l.35 \begin{document}
>
>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>   <write> ...g to load language '\bbl at main@language
>                                                   '..\@gobble \on at line .
>   l.35 \begin{document}
>
>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>   <argument> \bbl at main@language
>                               .lbx
>   l.35 \begin{document}
>
>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>   <write> ...tex Info: ... file '\bbl at main@language
>                                                   .lbx' not found\@gobble \o...
>   l.35 \begin{document}
>
>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>   <argument> blx at file@\bbl at main@language
>                                        .lbx
>   l.35 \begin{document}
>
>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>   <argument> \bbl at main@language
>                               .lbx
>   l.35 \begin{document}
>
>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>   <write> ... Warning: Language '\bbl at main@language
>                                                   ' not supported.\MessageBr...
>   l.35 \begin{document}
>
>
>   Package biblatex Warning: Language '' not supported.
>   (biblatex)                Using fallback language 'english' on input line 35.
>
>   (/home/haines/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/english.lbx)
>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>   <argument> extras\bbl at main@language
>
>   l.35 \begin{document}
>
>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>   <argument> noextras\bbl at main@language
>
>   l.35 \begin{document}
>
>
>   Package biblatex Warning: 'babel' detected but 'csquotes' missing.
>   (biblatex)                Loading 'csquotes' recommended.
>
>   No file test-xelatex-document.aux.
>   (/home/haines/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tipa/t3cmr.fd)
>   No file test-xelatex-document.bbl.
>   [1] (./test-xelatex-document.aux) )
>   (see the transcript file for additional information)
>   Output written on test-xelatex-document.pdf (1 page).
>   Transcript written on test-xelatex-document.log.
>
> >From a terminal I do get the PDF at the end, and so don't know how
> seriously to take all the warnings.
>
> However, if I issue the xelatex command in emacs/AUCTeX, no PDF is
> created, and when I do C-c C-l to view the log, I see this:
>
>   (/home/haines/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex)))
>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>   <argument> blx at lng@\bbl at main@language
>
>   l.35 \begin{document}
>
>   ?
>
> It does not accept any commands to get past this point, such as s to
> scroll to end.
>
> Haines Brown



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