<div dir="ltr">Hi Dimitris,<div><br></div><div>indeed I have found a statement in the stye file that I'm using that says:</div><div><br></div><div><div>% Document language control</div><div>\RequirePackage{babel}</div></div><div><br></div><div>However, if I add what you suggest in the main body of my LaTeX file, I still see the same error appearing. I have added the call:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">\usepackage[american]{babel}</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">just before the '\begin{document}' statement. I don't see to find anything saying where exactly it should be added....</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Thanks for your help!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Cheers,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Fab</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 February 2018 at 00:54, Dimitris Diochnos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diochnos@gmail.com" target="_blank">diochnos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
Babel is a package that lets you write in multiple languages in your<br>
tex file (and eventually in the compiled file that you will create).<br>
As the error message says, you have not specified a language option.<br>
My guess is that somewhere in the preamble of your document you have a<br>
statement of the form:<br>
<br>
\usepackage{babel}<br>
<br>
Replacing that statement with:<br>
<br>
\usepackage[american]{babel}<br>
<br>
you should be able to compile the document without the error that you<br>
mention. (Also, as a general remark, a short example that others can<br>
use to reproduce the error that you claim is always appreciated, so,<br>
do not be shy including such an example.)<br>
<br>
Cheers!<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Dimitris<br>
</font></span><br>
P.S.: <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/babel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ctan.org/pkg/babel</a> has a link to the documentation of<br>
the package as well.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 6:37 PM, Fabrizio Salvatore via macports-users<br>
<<a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org">macports-users@lists.<wbr>macports.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I have come across the following error message when compiling a LaTeX<br>
> document:<br>
><br>
> package babel error: you haven't specified a language option<br>
><br>
> I've googled for this and what I found is related to the presence or not of<br>
> the texlive-language-* packages. I have checked that I have all those<br>
> available on macports installed, but I still have the same error message.<br>
> Does anyone have any experience with that?<br>
><br>
> Thanks a lot !<br>
><br>
> Fab<br>
><br>
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