Hello, I don't know if this is the correct place for it, but since it involves the format and Babel... In the hyph-utf8 bundle of hyphenation patterns, there is one file that has not babelname set (in the comments): tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-no.tex I don't know how other distributions make it, but I grep the pattern files in order to match a Babel name with the patterns (in fact, loadhyph-*.tex) to load when generating the format from a list of supported languages that the user wants in the LaTeX format. Not knowing if it's intentional (to not specify the babelname for this file) or not, I mention it... Best, -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C