On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:46 -0400, Claudio Saavedra wrote: [...] > english hyphen.tex % do not change! > =usenglish > =USenglish > =american > spanish Where does that line 'spanish' come from? It is not in the original 09texlive-base.cnf, and the syntax is wrong. If you want to have spanish hyphenation patterns, you have to install texlive-lang-spanish. cheerio ralf