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Francois Pessaux <pessaux@mouton.inria.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   It seems that the LaTeX version provided with the RedHat 6.0
> (tetex-latex-0.9-17) is a bit bugged. Indeed, it compiled my ... thesis
> sources on the last friday (month of july). And then on monday, it was
> impossible.
> 
>   After many tries (date change for example), it seems that it comes from
> all monthes containing accents in their name. So you're not allowed to
> work in august and december in France ;-))
> 
>   More accurately, this comes from syntax errors in the file
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx when handling spacing for
> characters with accents in math mode, if I remember correctly.

Yes, it seems to be a bug introduced in the latest LaTeX release,
when fixing another bug (bad spacefactor after accented uppercase
letters; I know it well because I reported it).

Put in the preamble after \documentclass:

\makeatletter
\let\accent@spacefactor\relax
\makeatother

I hope this helps. (I've sent a copy of this message to
the french group, because I think it's of general interest)

________________________
Javier Bezos
jbezos at arrakis dot es