[tex-live] Serious (?) problem with Babel and language attributes
Ulrike Fischer
news3 at nililand.de
Mon Jun 2 09:52:42 CEST 2014
Am Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:54:59 +0900 schrieb Norbert Preining:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I don't know *when* this mess started, but it seems that
> the other language attributes are also broken.
>
> And it seems the bug is not in the ldf files, but in the babel *core*.
>
> But at least I have to say, they are broken since long, because
> I tried below test case also in Debian/TeX Live 2012 (!) with
> the same outcome.
>
> $ cat test.tex
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[latin]{babel}
> \languageattribute{latin}{medieval}
> \begin{document}
> \november
> \end{document}
> $
>
> This document *should* produce
> Nouembris
> if I am right ... the code in latin.ldf:
> \bbl at declare@ttribute{latin}{medieval}{%
> \addto\captionslatin{\def\prefacename{Pr{\ae}fatio}}%
> \def\november{Nouembris}%
> \expandafter\addto\expandafter\extraslatin
> \expandafter{\extrasmedievallatin}%
> }
>
> But what comes out is
> Novembris
> ???
I think that the last of the braces in the \addto-line is misplaced:
The redefinition of \november should be inside the
\addto\captionslatin. The medieval attribute works fine for
\prefacename.
--
Ulrike Fischer
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
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