I can confirm the problem for pgf in texlive 2007-13, using Ubuntu 8.04 hardy. I examined tikz.code.tex, where [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] is defined:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]:#2\relax{% \pgfmathparse{#1}% [EMAIL PROTECTED]@start=\pgfmathresult% \pgfmathparse{#2}% [EMAIL PROTECTED]@end=\pgfmathresult% [EMAIL PROTECTED]@start+([EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@start)/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@samples}% [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@start,\pgfmathresult,...,[EMAIL PROTECTED]@end}% } The colon used in this definition is used by babel as shorthand, see frenchb.ldf. You could disable this shorthand temporarily. I modified the example above to get it compilable: \documentclass[10pt]{article} \usepackage[frenchb]{babel} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \shorthandoff{:} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw plot[domain=-2:2] function{x}; \end{tikzpicture} \shorthandon{:} \end{document} -- Tikz bugs when computing functions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152315 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs