On 2013-10-20, Bernd Kappenberg wrote:
> I have a question:

> When I compile a XeTeX document, babel will load – even though the 
> language processing is done by polyglossia.

Actually, if you load babel instead of polyglossia, language processing is
done by babel. 

While in most cases the recommended language package for processing a
document with XeTeX or LuaTeX is polyglossia, babel works also for many
languages, especially if these languages use the Latin Script (but, e.g.,
the current babel-greek and babel-russian language definitions work also for
Greek and Russian respectively).

> Why is that so?
> Can I stop babel from loading?

This depends on your set up and document. We can only tell from a minimal
working example.

Günter

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