Thank you Stefano and Uwe
Yes I use afrikaans, english, german, dutch in the document. The dutch.ldf file look correct, so the problem is not there. If I try to edit it manually by removing the german in the \documentclass line as well as all the \selectlanguage{german} bits from the document I get more than 700 errors.
Uwe, when you say check for an actual version of my LateX distribition does that mean the SuSE may perhaps only have an old or incomplete version on their disk?
Thanks fot your help
Here is the frist part of the LateX export
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. \documentclass[12pt,twoside,american,british,german,ngerman,afrikaans]{report} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \setcounter{secnumdepth}{4} \setcounter{tocdepth}{4} \usepackage{array} \usepackage{varioref} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{setspace}
\makeatletter
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
\newcommand{\noun}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users
\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{varioref}\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}Stefano wrote "I have a similar problem with languages (detailed in a previous post: 3/17/05, with my ugly workaround), perhaps it's connected to your problem. Are you using more than one language in your documents?"
