On 2016-11-12, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Samstag, den 12.11.2016, 09:38 +0100 schrieb Tommaso Cucinotta:
>> thanks, at the beginning of the doc there's a warning about these: >> arydshln, colortbl, diagbox, lettrine, marginnote, picinpar and >> sidecap >> perhaps the lang issue deserves a note as well? Yes. > I think this is something that should be solved at the distro level. It > is simply absurd that some distros install babel, but not all babel- ><lang> packages, by default. After all, these packages are really > small. However, TeXLive-packagers decided otherwise - splitting the packages along languages. There are reasons: e.g. babel-greek is useless without fonts supporting Greek -- the texlive-lang-greek package is hence rather large (95 MB). Also, Babel language files won't help much without the matching hyphenation patterns. Unfortunatly, these patterns must be compiled into the LaTeX format file: you load all patterns with every latex run. Therefore it makes sense to limit this to the languages you really need. I am aware that this is not a prohibiting limitation for modern computers. However, it is the motivation for the current splitting of texlive packages. I suggest to life with it (and change the example or add a note in EmbeddedObjects) rather than fight the distributors. Günter
