Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
Sure, but I understood that the \AtBeginDocument command deffered its contents exactly at the \begin{document} point of the processing (in the order of the \AtBeginDocument commands, which may be several.
right, but babel does the same, writing its configuration at the beginning of the document. Everything is overwritten by babel. Only loading it _before_ a redefinition of some macros wirks, just as Jean-Marc wrote.
Herbert
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