[XeTeX] XeLaTeX & french babel

[Cyril Niklaus]

On 3 févr. 08, at 21:24, Will Robertson wrote:

> Hello,
> Anyone know why this document doesn't compile in XeLaTeX?
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[french]{babel}
> \begin{document}
> test
> \end{document}

Works fine here. What version of XeLaTeX are you using?

This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
  %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./testfb.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
dumylang, noh
yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak,  
german, ng
erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi,  
finnish,
  french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian,  
interlingua, ibyc
us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk,  
polish, por
tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian,  
swedish,
turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)
*************************************
* Local config file frenchb.cfg used
*
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.cfg)))
No file testfb.aux.
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lm/t1lmr.fd) [1] (./ 
testfb.aux)Sun Feb  3 21:27:54 Baal.local xdv2pdf[312] <Error>:  
WARNING: Type1 font data returned by OFAStreamPSDownload isn't in the  
correct format required by the Adobe Type 1Font Format specification.
  )

Output written on testfb.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on testfb.log.

Cyril