Bug 6922

Summary:	babel package not working
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	lco
Component:	tetex	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1
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Description lco 1999-11-11 12:11:27 UTC

This document gives an error in tetex-1.0.6-7 (rh6.1) but
not in tetex-0.9-17 (rh6.0):

$ cat bug.tex
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
Does not compute.
\end{document}

$ latex bug.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(bug.tex
LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6x> and hyphenation patterns for american, french,
german, ngerman, i
talian, portuges, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/01/07 v1.4a Standard LaTeX
document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/home/lco/lib/tex/inputs/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/english.sty

! Package babel Error: You have used an old interface to
call babel
(babel)                You may expect compatibility problems
wit other packages
.

See the babel package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.54     \bblstyerror

?

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-15 23:25:59 UTC

The following input
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\begin{document}
Does not compute.
\end{document}

works for me (Note: [english] added to \usepackage line)