[tex-live] texlive and babel/french/frenchle

[Norbert Preining]

Hi friends!

Is there something strange going on? Compiling a simple file
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\begin{document}
Héllo World
\end{document}

(tried with/without fontenc/inputenc) produces strange results:

The above:
This is e-TeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./bla.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german,
ngerman, ca
talan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, estonian, finnish, greek,
hungarian, ita
lian, latin, mongolian, norwegian, polish, portuguese, romanian,
russian, slove
ne, serbocroat, slovak, spanish, swedish, ukenglish, ukrainian, welsh,
dumylang
, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/latex/le/french.ldf
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/latex/le/frenchle.sty
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)

 -29- ****Warning****: your TeX V3 engine + CM
 -29- fonts (your format default) isn't sufficient to hyphenate
 -29- words containing diacritics (like in French).

 -23- Extension : style frenchle V5,07 -- 23 mai 2002 -- (B.Gaulle)
 -24- frenchle.sty utilise dans ce document le codage de fonte OT1.
 -25- frenchle.sty affiche ici ses messages en 7-bits << \`a la TeX >>.

)

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.61 \endfrench
               % and stop it immediately until \begin{document}
?

Looks like there is something in the TeX output before begin{document}

Using fontenc T1 gets rid of the first error message, but the second
stats the same:
This is e-TeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./bla.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german,
ngerman, ca
talan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, estonian, finnish, greek,
hungarian, ita
lian, latin, mongolian, norwegian, polish, portuguese, romanian,
russian, slove
ne, serbocroat, slovak, spanish, swedish, ukenglish, ukrainian, welsh,
dumylang
, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/latex/le/french.ldf
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/latex/le/frenchle.sty
(/usr/TeX-live/texlive-src/Master/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)

 -23- Extension : style frenchle V5,07 -- 23 mai 2002 -- (B.Gaulle)
 -24- frenchle.sty utilise dans ce document le codage de fonte T1.
 -25- frenchle.sty affiche ici ses messages en 7-bits << \`a la TeX >>.

)

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.61 \endfrench
               % and stop it immediately until \begin{document}
?

Can someone enlighten me what went wrong in TeX live at the moment?

On a different system with tetex (debian woody) it works without any
problems, mainly because is does not use lefrench, but babel files:
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
(./bla.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)
*************************************
* Local config file frenchb.cfg used
*
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.cfg))) (./bla.aux)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/ot2wncyr.fd) [1] (./bla.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on bla.dvi (1 page, 232 bytes).
Transcript written on bla.log.


Best wishes

Norbert

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