Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
I've been puzzled for a while because my TL2010 distribution appears to
load Babel by default very early in the format file.
E.g.,:
$ xelatex
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2010)
restricted \write18 enabled.
**\relax
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english,...
I don't think this started at TL 2010, Dominik; I have recollections
of seeing Babel mentioned early in the log file in earlier releases,
and in a sense it was part of what I looked for to see if TeX or
LaTeX had been invoked.
** Phil.
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