From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31137 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2017 01:16:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31122 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jun 2017 01:16:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Stein X-HELO: limerock03.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock03.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.243) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 01:16:11 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id v5A1GDWL021591 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2017 21:16:13 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.15] (mta-68-175-129-7.twcny.rr.com [68.175.129.7] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id v5A1GAfp000865 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2017 21:16:12 -0400 Subject: Re: Babel trouble with latest cygwin package To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Ken Brown Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 01:16:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00101.txt.bz2 On 6/9/2017 5:58 PM, Harvey Stein wrote: > I'm using cygwin on Windows 7, setup.exe version 2.879 (64 bit). > > I updated my packages yesterday, and now Babel in LaTeX is having > trouble. The line: > > \usepackage[USenglish]{babel} > > is eliciting the following error message: > > ! Package babel Error: Unknown option `USenglish'. Either you misspelled it > (babel) or the language definition file USenglish.ldf was not fo > und. > > See the babel package documentation for explanation. > Type H for immediate help. > ... > > l.393 \ProcessOptions* > > ? > > This is the correct parameter for the babel package and works on other > platforms and worked before the package update > > When I change the line to: > > \usepackage[usenglish]{babel} > > the error goes away. > > Is there an issue with how latex was packaged? No, this is a known bug in the upstream babel-english package: http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2017-June/040243.html It looks like a fix was just committed a few days ago. I'll update texlive-collection-latex within the next few days. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple