Re: teTeX 3.0 problem with babel & amsart

Axel E. Retif wrote:
> 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.

Thank you very much for the tip, it works perfectly !

Robin Fairbairns wrote:
 > this (i've just realised i ought to look) is a known amslatex bug:
 >
 > http://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=amslatex/3756
 >
 > as axel suggests, making \languagename anything that doesn't print
 > will prevent the effect.  it will create chaos if you ever change
 > language, so this solution doesn't help if you're doing a multi-
 > lingual document.

I probably used a previous (unaffected) version of babel, as stated in 
the bug report, so I did not observed the bug before installing teTeX 3.0.

(And now I know where to look for such problems)

Thanks again !

Regards,

js