Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
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,...
I don't think this started at TL 2010, Dominik; I have recollections of seeing Babel mentioned early in the log file in earlier releases, and in a sense it was part of what I looked for to see if TeX or LaTeX had been invoked. ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex