Re: Babel trouble with latest cygwin package

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 6/9/2017 5:58 PM, Harvey Stein wrote:
> I'm using cygwin on Windows 7, setup.exe version 2.879 (64 bit).
>
> I updated my packages yesterday, and now Babel in LaTeX is having
> trouble.  The line:
>
> \usepackage[USenglish]{babel}
>
> is eliciting the following error message:
>
> ! Package babel Error: Unknown option `USenglish'. Either you misspelled it
> (babel)                or the language definition file USenglish.ldf was not fo
> und.
>
> See the babel package documentation for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>   ...
>
> l.393 \ProcessOptions*
>
> ?
>
> This is the correct parameter for the babel package and works on other
> platforms and worked before the package update >
> When I change the line to:
>
> \usepackage[usenglish]{babel}
>
> the error goes away.
>
> Is there an issue with how latex was packaged?

No, this is a known bug in the upstream babel-english package:

  http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2017-June/040243.html

It looks like a fix was just committed a few days ago.  I'll update 
texlive-collection-latex within the next few days.

Ken

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