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I have the following error:

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/germanb.ldf) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf ************************************* * Local config file english.cfg used * (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/pedigree-perl/examples/english.cfg ! You can't use `macro parameter character #' in vertical mode. l.1 # An example configuration file for pedigree program ?

Unfortunately, I can not give an minimal example.

This error appeared after I updated to TeX Live 2012/Debian (I am using Linux Mint 14). Before that the documents that now produce the error could be compiled.

I am wondering why this file is looked at at all. Has anyone experienced the same? Or has anyone an idea how to get ride off this error?

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  • That path should not hashed: I have the same file on my system ('vanilla' TL, Windows 7), but it does not interfere with anything. Commented Jan 11, 2013 at 8:43
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    Are you loading anything in relation to pedigree-perl in your document? AFAIR usually TL does not load anything from the doc three. Besides, it is not a LaTeX file, so it would be nice to figure out why it is loaded in your document. What does kpdewhich english.cfg say? I do not get any results Commented Jan 11, 2013 at 9:34
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    Babel tries to load <language>.cfg if existent. You probably have added texmf-dist/doc/support/pedigree-perl/examples to the TEXINPUTS variable in order to access the .csv files there, so babel finds english.cfg and wants to load it, but it's not a TeX file. Commented Jan 11, 2013 at 10:23
  • @egreg Ahh, I was looking for that one, but forgot to look inside babel.def Commented Jan 11, 2013 at 10:27
  • egreg you are right. I just put /usr/share// in TEXINPUTS. What should i put in there? Commented Jan 11, 2013 at 11:05

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You have in your TEXINPUTS path a file called english.cfg; such a file is indeed existent in <TeX-root>/doc/support/pedigree-perl/examples, but it's a Perl file.

The doc subtree should never be added to the TeX search paths. Setting

export TEXINPUTS=/usr/share//:

is definitely a bad idea. There's usually no need to set the variable.

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