LaTeX forum ⇒ Text Formatting ⇒ Why trivfloat wants to speak french???

[robertoneto123]

Hello,

First of all, I am not doing a french document.

My problem: When I put

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{trivfloat}
\usepackage[brazil]{babel}
\usepackage[alf,abnt-etal-list=0,abnt-etal-cite=2,abnt-year-extra-label=yes,abnt-etal-text=emph]{abntcite}
\usepackage{abnt-alf}
(...)

I got the error:

projetoFinal.tex:132:Package babel Error: You haven't defined the language french yet. \begin{document}

When I comment the \usepackage{trivfloat} line, everything works fine.

Does anyone know what is happening?

Thanks!

Roberto

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Roberto,

if you would post a minimal working example instead of just that piece of code we could test and examine the problem.

I've tried your code, I had to comment out the packages abntcite and abnt-alf in order to make it compilable and of course I had to build a document around it using a class - there was no babel error.

Perhaps delete your .aux file and compile again.

Stefan

[josephwright]

As the author of trivfloat, I can't see why this is happening. As Stefan says, a full working example is needed here.

[robertoneto123]

Thanks!

I attached a minimial example.

By the way, I found that if I put \usepackage[brazil,french]{babel} it does compile.

But is strange, since nothing in my doc is in french...

[josephwright]

Your example needs abnt.cls, which is missing from the zip file (standard files such as booktabs, trivfloat itself, etc., are not really necessary!)

[josephwright]

Phew, I found all of the necessary files on the Internet. If you start with a clean folder (delete all aux files, etc.) then all is fine. You might get an odd error if there are old aux files about delete all of them before trying anything. \listfiles gives me:

 *File List*
    abnt.cls    2006/09/09 v1.32 Classe abnt (NBR6024, NBR6027, NBR6028, NBR147
24)
  cvs-id.def
  ifthen.sty    2001/05/26 v1.1c Standard LaTeX ifthen package (DPC)
    calc.sty    2005/08/06 v4.2 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
multicol.sty    2006/05/18 v1.6g multicolumn formatting (FMi)
abntex-abrev.sty    2005/11/14 v1.4 Abreviacoes
  cvs-id.def
nbr10522-1988.def    2003/10/13 v1.2 Abreviacoes bibliograficas (NBR10522:1988)

  cvs-id.def
abntex-abrev-pt_BR.def    2005/11/14 v1.3 definicao de abntex-abrev, traducao d
e termos en_US/pt_BR
  cvs-id.def
abntex-text.sty    2005/11/14 v1.1 abnTeX text replacements
  cvs-id.def
abntex-text-pt_BR.def    2005/12/21 v1.2 Definicao de nomes em Portugues/Brasil
 (pt_BR)
  cvs-id.def
abntex-default-design.sty    2005/06/22 v1.2 Definicoes de design padrao do abn
tex
  cvs-id.def
 relsize.sty    2003/07/04 ver 3.1
nbr6027-1989.def
nbr14724-2001.def
  report.cls    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
  size12.clo    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
setspace.sty    2000/12/01 6.7 Contributed and Supported LaTeX2e package
mathptmx.sty    2005/04/12 PSNFSS-v9.2a Times w/ Math, improved (SPQR, WaS) 
  helvet.sty    2005/04/12 PSNFSS-v9.2a (WaS) 
  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
indentfirst.sty    1995/11/23 v1.03 Indent first paragraph (DPC)
inputenc.sty    2006/05/05 v1.1b Input encoding file
    utf8.def    2006/03/30 v1.1i UTF-8 support for inputenc
   t1enc.dfu    2006/03/30 v1.1i UTF-8 support for inputenc
  ot1enc.dfu    2006/03/30 v1.1i UTF-8 support for inputenc
  omsenc.dfu    2006/03/30 v1.1i UTF-8 support for inputenc
   babel.sty    2008/07/06 v3.8l The Babel package
 bblopts.cfg    2006/07/31 v1.0 MiKTeX 'babel' configuration
portuges.ldf    2008/03/18 v1.2q Portuguese support from the babel system
trivfloat.sty    2009/04/23 v1.4 Quick floats in LaTeX
   float.sty    2001/11/08 v1.3d Float enhancements (AL)
 mdwlist.sty    1996/05/02 1.1 Various list-related things
hyperref.sty    2009/09/23 v6.78v Hypertext links for LaTeX
   ifpdf.sty    2009/04/10 v2.0 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
  ifvtex.sty    2008/11/04 v1.4 Switches for detecting VTeX and its modes (HO)
 ifxetex.sty    2009/01/23 v0.5 Provides ifxetex conditional
 hycolor.sty    2008/09/08 v1.4 Code for color options of hyperref/bookmark (HO
)
xcolor-patch.sty    2008/09/08 xcolor patch
  pd1enc.def    2009/09/23 v6.78v Hyperref: PDFDocEncoding definition (HO)
etexcmds.sty    2007/12/12 v1.2 Prefix for e-TeX command names (HO)
infwarerr.sty    2007/09/09 v1.2 Providing info/warning/message (HO)
hyperref.cfg    2002/06/06 v1.2 hyperref configuration of TeXLive
kvoptions.sty    2009/08/13 v3.4 Keyval support for LaTeX options (HO)
kvsetkeys.sty    2009/07/30 v1.5 Key value parser with default handler support 
(HO)
     url.sty    2006/04/12  ver 3.3  Verb mode for urls, etc.
  bitset.sty    2007/09/28 v1.0 Data type bit set (HO)
 intcalc.sty    2007/09/27 v1.1 Expandable integer calculations (HO)
bigintcalc.sty    2007/11/11 v1.1 Expandable big integer calculations (HO)
pdftexcmds.sty    2009/09/23 v0.6 LuaTeX support for pdfTeX utility functions (
HO)
ifluatex.sty    2009/04/17 v1.2 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO)
 ltxcmds.sty    2009/08/05 v1.0 Some LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO)

atbegshi.sty    2008/07/31 v1.9 At begin shipout hook (HO)
 hpdftex.def    2009/09/23 v6.78v Hyperref driver for pdfTeX
abntcite.sty    2006/04/25 v1.30 Chamadas de referencias no texto (NBR10520, NB
R10522)
  cvs-id.def
nbr10520-2002.def    2006/04/25 v1.4 Definicoes para abntcite (NBR10520:2002)
  cvs-id.def
abnt-alf.sty    2002/06/24
enumerate.sty    1999/03/05 v3.00 enumerate extensions (DPC)
  dsfont.sty    1995/08/01 v0.1 Double stroke roman fonts
graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
graphics.sty    2006/02/20 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
    trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 graphics configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
   dvips.def    1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
algorithm2e.sty    2005/10/04 v3.9 algorithms environments
  xspace.sty    2006/05/08 v1.12 Space after command names (DPC,MH)
rotating.sty    2009/03/28 v2.16a rotated objects in LaTeX
booktabs.sty    2005/04/14 v1.61803 publication quality tables
   array.sty    2005/08/23 v2.4b Tabular extension package (FMi)
pst-text.sty    2006/01/01 package wrapper for pst-text.tex (hv)
pstricks.sty    2004/05/12 v0.2l LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV)
pstricks.tex    2009/05/19 v1.29 `PSTricks' (tvz)
  xcolor.sty    2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
   color.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
  pdftex.def    2009/08/25 v0.04m Graphics/color for pdfTeX
pst-text.tex    2006/11/05 1.00 `pst-text' (tvz)
 amsmath.sty    2000/07/18 v2.13 AMS math features
 amstext.sty    2000/06/29 v2.01
  amsgen.sty    1999/11/30 v2.0
  amsbsy.sty    1999/11/29 v1.2d
  amsopn.sty    1999/12/14 v2.01 operator names
longtable.sty    2004/02/01 v4.11 Multi-page Table package (DPC)
makecell.sty    2009/08/03 V0.1e Managing of Tab Column Heads and Cells
 tocloft.sty    2009/09/04 v2.3d parameterised ToC, etc., typesetting
  subfig.sty    2005/06/28 ver: 1.3 subfig package
 caption.sty    2008/08/24 v3.1j Customizing captions (AR)
caption3.sty    2008/08/24 v3.1j caption3 kernel (AR)
ltcaption.sty    2008/03/28 v1.2 longtable captions (AR)
fancyhdr.sty    
  ot1ptm.fd    2001/06/04 font definitions for OT1/ptm.
 nameref.sty    2007/05/29 v2.31 Cross-referencing by name of section
refcount.sty    2008/08/11 v3.1 Data extraction from references (HO)
    main.out
    main.out
supp-pdf.tex
ot1ztmcm.fd    2000/01/03 Fontinst v1.801 font definitions for OT1/ztmcm.
omlztmcm.fd    2000/01/03 Fontinst v1.801 font definitions for OML/ztmcm.
omsztmcm.fd    2000/01/03 Fontinst v1.801 font definitions for OMS/ztmcm.
omxztmcm.fd    2000/01/03 Fontinst v1.801 font definitions for OMX/ztmcm.
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[LRMAAX]

This problem is still happening and removing aux files doesn't help.

In case anyone arrives here without luck, I've put some details here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/701757/trivfloat-biblatex-abnt-are-requiring-french