(In-)compatibility with babel package

[ThiloteE]

Hello, am just a user here. Not too deeply involved into any packages. Still, a BIG THANK YOU for this package! 👍 My utmost gratitude!

The problem:

There seems to be a compatibility issue with the babel package (unless i configured it wrongly).

• The first run of lualatex works without a hitch.
• The second run of lualatex took waaaaay to long. I waited 15 minutes until i closed texmaker and then had to force cancel the process in windows task manager.

Minimal non-working example:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}

      \usepackage{citation-style-language}
       \cslsetup{
                style = apa,
                }

      \usepackage[english]{babel}

      \addbibresource{bibliography.bib} 

\begin{document}

      test \cite{Glass20210607PGP} test. 

      \printbibliography

\end{document}

Here the bibliographic data:

@Article{Glass20210607PGP,
  author    = {Glass, Nicola},
  date      = {2021-06-07},
  title     = {Proteste Gegen Putschisten – Widerstand in Den Nachbarländern Myanmar Und Thailand},
  doi       = {10.11588/XAREP.00004477},
  url       = {http://crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/4477/},
  urldate   = {2021-09-08},
  file      = {:Glass (2021) Proteste gegen Putschisten - Widerstand in Maynmar und Thailand.pdf:PDF},
  keywords  = {Political science, FOS: Political science, Military science},
  publisher = {Heidelberg University Library},
  urn       = {urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-crossasiarep-44775},
}

Removing the line \usepackage[english]{babel} leads to a successful compilation within seconds.

Additional info:

I used the version of the citation-style-language package from MiKTeX, which was packaged on 24.01.2022.

[zepinglee]

Thanks for your feedback! I can reproduce the bug.

The citation-style-language redefines several internal commands like \bibcite and \bibstyle for use in the .aux file. babel patches those commands as well, which causes the possible infinite loop error. I'll dig into it later.

[zepinglee]

Fixed in 2caad3b. In general the babel package is supposed to be loaded before citation-style-language.

[ThiloteE]

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