On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 07:47:55AM +0100, Martin wrote: > On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 20:27, Herbert Voss wrote: > > Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > > > > I have no problem with your test file. > > > > > > Maybe your babel.sty or other pieces of your tetex installation are > > > old? > > > > > > ok, than the problem must be a package. > > Insert at the last command the preamble > > > > \listfiles > > > This is the complete output: > > [chimbis@www chimbis]$ latex test.tex [...] > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/chess.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 > .
Compare with mine: LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1 Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, i talian, portuges, russian, spanish, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/a4wide.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ntgclass/a4.sty)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/chess/chess.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf <====== This!!! Looks like maybe your babel package is not complete since it should grab this file instead of the english.sty file. ---Kayvan -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)