Re: texlive-lang-french and babel (texlive-latex-base) improvement

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Patrick,

First of all - in the described case you got a big fat warning ... right?

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)                the language `French'
(babel)                I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

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I think this is enough warning.
If you used a front end that did *not* inform you about this warning,
the front end should be fixed.

On Do, 22 Nov 2012, Patrick GOLDBRONN wrote:
> So if we forget (as me) to install texlive-lang-french, we could use
> \babel{french} without the right hyphenation rule :-(

As Frank said, the one is a necessary part of babel, the other is not.
So no way for that.

Sorry.

Best wishes

Norbert
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