I've been puzzled for a while because my TL2010 distribution appears to load Babel by default very early in the format file.
E.g.,: $ xelatex > This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2010) > restricted \write18 enabled. > **\relax > entering extended mode > LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> > Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, > nohyphenation, ge > rman-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ibycus, > arabi > c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, > danis > h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, > french, > galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, hungarian, > icelandic > , assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, marathi, oriya, > panja > bi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kurmanji, lao, > lati > n, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, > portu > guese, romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, > swedis > h, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded. > > * > saying \listfiles shows only *File List* > article.cls 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class > size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option) > *********** > so the call to babel must be in the fmt setup. Will try to find it later today. Dominik
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