Bug#407549: texlive-lang-ukenglish: Missing ukenglish.ldf
Vincent Lönngren <bice77@malmo2.net> wrote:
> ! Package babel Error: Language definition file ukenglish.ldf not found.
Indeed. Even the filename search on CTAN cannot find it.
> ##################################
> minimal input file
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[ukenglish]{babel}
>
> \begin{document}
> \end{document}
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
--- /sid/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty 2005-05-28 19:15:09.000000000 +0200
+++ babel.sty 2007-01-19 22:48:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -116,7 +116,9 @@
\DeclareOption{uppersorbian}{\input{usorbian.ldf}}
\DeclareOption{welsh}{\input{welsh.ldf}}
\DeclareOption{UKenglish}{\input{english.ldf}}
+\DeclareOption{ukenglish}{\input{english.ldf}}
\DeclareOption{USenglish}{\input{english.ldf}}
+\DeclareOption{usenglish}{\input{english.ldf}}
\DeclareOption*{%
\InputIfFileExists{\CurrentOption.ldf}{}{%
\PackageError{babel}{%
Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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