Am Donnerstag, den 11.08.2016, 11:16 -0400 schrieb Marshall Feldman:
> I'm using the memoir class to produce a LyX document that's mainly
> written in U.S. English but has several quotes that use British (UK)
> English. So when I put the document through LyX's spell check and
> came
> to words like "behaviours," I just marked them as UK English. But
> when I
> tried to compile the document, LaTeX threw an error saying the
> command
> "\foreignlanguage{british}{behaviours}" was undefined.

This is strange. Can you post a minimal example (LyX) file?

> 
> No problem, I thought. I'll just put a command in the document
> preface
> to load babel with both languages:
> \usepackage[british,american]{babel}.
> But this didn't work because LaTeX threw an error saying babel had
> already been loaded. But for the life of me, I can't find where babel
> is
> being loaded. The memoir manual says it does not duplicate the
> functionality of packages like babel, and babel is not in the list of
> packages memoir loads. So by a process of elimination, I can only
> guess
> that LyX is surreptitiously loading babel. But if so, shouldn't it be
> doing so with options for all the languages used in the document?
> (I.e.,
> is this a bug in LyX?)

No, it's a feature. LyX loads babel when needed.

Jürgen

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