Re: teTeX 3.0 problem with babel & amsart

On Feb 11, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Jean-Sebastien Roy wrote:

> I recently installed teTeX 3.0 on a FreeBSD computer (completly wiping 
> the
> previous installation to avoid problems), and while almost everything 
> works
> fine, a strange bug occurs while using babel & amsart.
>
> For example when rendering (with pdflatex) this short document :
>
> \documentclass[frenchb]{amsart}
> \usepackage{babel}
> \begin{document}
> \title{Tata}
> \maketitle
> Hello.
> \newpage
> World.
> \end{document}
>
> The word "french" is prepended to the title at the top of the second 
> page so
> it read "frenchTata" instead of "Tata". The same problem happens with 
> other
> langage (german for example).
> The problem did not occur in any previous version of teTeX.

Apparently, it did. On January 30, 2005, Piero D'Ancona wrote to the 
TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List ( http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ ):

> Hi co-listers.
>
> For those of you who need the combination
> amsart+babel in a non-english language, and
> are annoyed by the running title bug (i.e.,
> you get a running title like
> "italianSHORTTITLE OF THE PAPER" instead of
> "SHORTTITLE OF THE PAPER" as expected),
> I have a quick fix: just add after \maketitle the line
>
> \let\languagename\relax
>
> This is just a dirty trick but it solves the problem
> and in my tests produces no collateral damage.
> Be sure to put the above line before any
> sectioning commands (where the marks for the \output
> routine are set). Still waiting for a true fix of course.
>
> Enjoy,
> Piero


Best regards,

Axel