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ID | 165🔗 |
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Date: | 2020-06-30 09:40:28 |
Status | Closed (Fixed) |
Category | tracklang |
Version | v1.4 |
Summary | Error message: ! Extra \else . |
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Description
When one loads Sanskrit with polyglossia, and glossaries package, one gets the following error message:! Extra \else. \@tracklang@ifundef ...\relax #2\else #3\fi \else \expandafter \ifx \csname ... l.13094 {} ?It looks like a tracklang problem, possibly related to the fact that as Sanskrit can be written in a variety of scripts no script is defined for the Sanskrit language.
See also [TeX.SX Link].
MWE
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\documentclass{article} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage{english} \setotherlanguage{sanskrit} %\setotherlanguage{quechua} \newfontfamily\sanskritfont{Latin Modern Roman}[Ligatures=TeX] \usepackage{glossaries-extra} \makeglossaries \begin{document} Something \end{document}
Evaluation
This seems to be a problem with \IfTrackedLanguageFileExists
. The problem can be demonstrated with a simpler LaTeX MWE:
\documentclass{article} \usepackage[sanskrit]{tracklang} \begin{document} \AnyTrackedLanguages {% \ForEachTrackedDialect{\thisdialect}{% \IfTrackedLanguageFileExists{\thisdialect}{}{}{}{}% }% } Something \end{document}
Or Plain TeX:
\input tracklang \TrackPredefinedDialect{sanskrit} \AnyTrackedLanguages {% \ForEachTrackedDialect{\thisdialect}{% \IfTrackedLanguageFileExists{\thisdialect}{}{}{}{}% }% } Something \bye
It looks like the problem stems from a spurious {\fi}
in \@tracklang@test@if@file@exists@for@langII
(within the generic TeX code tracklang.tex).
Now fixed in tracklang version 1.5 (2020-06-30).
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