[tex-live] exam + babel => latex hangs

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Hi,

The versions are the same:
    exam.cls    2011/05/22 Version 2.4 by Philip Hirschhorn
  ifthen.sty    2001/05/26 v1.1c Standard LaTeX ifthen package (DPC)
 article.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
 fontenc.sty
   t1enc.def    2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX file
I manually checked the other ones, loaded by babel.

I couldn't find a babel language with which that document would build.
According to my debugging using \typeout, pdflatex seems to get lost somewhere
in exam.cls.

Lucas


On 27/09/13 at 18:55 +0000, Lars Madsen wrote:
> Start by verifying that the package versions match. For example by using a different language to babel to make it compile. Or try with out babel first to check the versions
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucas Nussbaum [lucas at debian.org]
> Received: fredag, 27 sep. 2013, 20:20
> To: Lars Madsen [daleif at imf.au.dk]
> CC: tex-live at tug.org [tex-live at tug.org]; psh at math.mit.edu [psh at math.mit.edu]
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] exam + babel => latex hangs
> 
> On 27/09/13 at 15:58 +0000, Lars Madsen wrote:
> > I have no problem with this example, using the following versions
> >
> >    exam.cls    2011/05/22 Version 2.4 by Philip Hirschhorn
> >   ifthen.sty    2001/05/26 v1.1c Standard LaTeX ifthen package (DPC)
> >  article.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
> >   size10.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
> >  fontenc.sty
> >    t1enc.def    2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX file
> >    babel.sty    2013/05/16 v3.9f The Babel package
> >  frenchb.ldf    2013/07/06 v2.6e French support from the babel system
> > scalefnt.sty
> >   keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
> >
> >
> > \listfiles
> > \documentclass{exam}
> > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> > \usepackage[french]{babel}
> > \begin{document}
> > \begin{questions}
> > \question[2] Test
> > \end{questions}
> > \end{document}
> 
> Erm, actually, I tried to reproduce my problem in a clean Debian 'sid' chroot,
> and failed. So it might be caused by something else.
> 
> Any idea how to debug further? Is there a step-by-step execution mode in
> pdflatex, for example?
> 
> Lucas