Am Freitag, den 22.09.2017, 10:22 +1000 schrieb Peter Drummond: > `Package babel Error: Unknown language `english'. Either you have' > > In the next pane, I have: > > `\selectlanguage{english} > You may proceed, but expect unexpected results' > > In the Document Settings, I find the Language package is always set > to 'Automatic'. If I then reset this to 'Always Babel', the error > goes away. I discovered this by trial and error. It is certainly not > remotely obvious. Why would a babel package error go away when one > sets the language package to 'babel'? I would have expected that if > the language package was set to 'Automatic', then it would either > choose 'babel' or some other package. If it chose 'babel', I might > get 'babel' errors, but they would surely remain if I set the option > to 'Always Babel'!
That's strange indeed. The only expected thing that might happen with automatic is that polyglossia is used rather than babel if you use "non-TeX fonts" and specific languages. How does the LaTeX preamble (in View Source) in the two variants look like? Also the LaTeX log could be revealing. > A related problem is that if I type in an incorrectly spelled word > like 'testx', it will be flagged by the spell-checker, but no > alternative is suggested. Note that these errors occur in a > completely new Lyx file, just created, with only one word in it, and > only default settings. Other users have reported issues with the spell checker on the Mac. This might be related: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9351 HTH Jürgen
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