Bug#407549: texlive-lang-ukenglish: Missing ukenglish.ldf
Vincent Lönngren <bice77@malmo2.net> wrote:
> fre 2007-01-19 klockan 22:48 +0100 skrev Frank Küster:
>> According to the babel userguide ("texdoc babel/user"), the option is
>> called UKenglish. It's a bit unfortunate that case makes a difference
>> here. I think we should ask the babel developers to add ukenglish as an
>> alias. It's as simple as
>
> Thanks, that works! Also, for some reason, "british" also seems to work,
> although I don't find any reference to the alias
> in /etc/texmf/languages.d.
This is because languages.d deals with hyphenation only, whereas babel
does more (like enabling special active characters, frenchspacing
etc. for some languages). The languages supported by babel, and
possible synonyms, are described in the babel userguide, section 1.1
> Actually I don't know if it works per se, but
> at least latex doesn't give any warning when I use it.
I'm sure it works, although I must admit that I don't know how to check
it except by looking for correct hyphenation of the respective words.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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