[tex-live] babel - problem

Jonathan Kew jonathan at jfkew.plus.com
Thu Sep 11 16:05:47 CEST 2008


On 11 Sep 2008, at 2:57 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:

>>> Try rebuilding the pdflatex format file (fmtutil --byfmt pdflatex).
>>
>> It helped! Thanks!
>> I actually did rebuild all the formats using the GUI, but it didn't
>> help at all. What's the difference between rebuilding all the formats
>> via GUI and rebuilding only pdflatex via command line?
>>
> It seems that GUI is confused by some relicts of old installations
> while the command line is not. They should be equivalent.

Is it an issue of system-wide vs. per-user formats? If the GUI  
rebuilds system-wide formats, but the user has old versions in a  
personal tree within the HOME folder, those will still override the  
newly-built ones.

JK



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