When xelatex is building it's format file, it gets to loading latex.ltx. That contains
\InputIfFileExists{hyphen.cfg} > {\typeout{===========================================^^J% > Local configuration file hyphen.cfg used^^J% > ===========================================}%On 23 > November 2010 10:03, Philip > There are two hyphen.cfg files in TL2010, one for babel and one for luatex. /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg > /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/hyph-utf8/hyphen.cfg > They're more or less the same file; the luatex one has some additions specific to \ifx\directlua or \else. Xelatex loads the first. That's the babel one, and that's where the "Babel <v3.8l>" announcement in the XeLaTeX format comes from. Dominik Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > 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 >
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