[tex-live] ngerman.sty - Undefined control sequence

[Karl Berry]

Hi Helmut,

You reported (19 July) that running
eplain ngerman.sty
yields:
    ! Undefined control sequence.
    \declare at robustcommand ...\csname \bbl at stripslash

I believe it's an oversight in babel's bplain, and reported it at
https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/59.

As DavidC said (20 July, but you may not have seen it), a workaround is
to make \DeclareTextSymbol undefined when reading ngerman.sty. Then
ngerman takes a completely different branch that doesn't involve the
latex cmds:

\let\zzz\DeclareTextSymbol
\let\DeclareTextSymbol\undefined
\input ngerman.sty
\let\DeclareTextSymbol\zzz

Regards,
Karl