Bug#357889: pdfscreen: \usepackage[francais]{babel}

[Gilles <gilles@harfang.homelinux.org>]

Package: pdfscreen
Version: 1.5-6
Severity: normal

Hello.

When "\usepackage[francais]{babel}" is present in the preamble,
the generated ".toc" file contains

\select@language {french}

as its first line.  And the following call to "pdflatex" complains:

! Undefined control sequence.
l.1 \select
           @language {french}
?

Ignoring it (by pressing return) produces a pdf file containing
the string "@language french" printed just above the first entry
of the table of contents.

When the reference to "babel" is commented out, the offending
disappears from the toc file.
[I assume that this could get annoying if e.g. hyphenation patterns
are needed...]


Regards,
Gilles


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Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages pdfscreen depends on:
ii  tetex-bin                     3.0-13     The teTeX binary files

Versions of packages pdfscreen recommends:
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]               1:3.6.1-12 PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  tetex-extra                   3.0-10     Additional library files of teTeX
ii  xpdf-reader [pdf-viewer]      3.01-6     Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  xpdf-utils [pdf-viewer]       3.01-6     Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

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