Hi Rogério, On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:49 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Unfortunately, it seems that something is weird with both ams{art,book}, > when I try to load babel (for writing things in Brazilian Portuguese): > the headers of pages citing the name of the article are prefixed with > whatever I put into square brackets, right before {babel}, when I use a > \usepackage command.
According to some newsgroup threads this is known upstream as <URL:http://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=amslatex/3756> ans supposedly fixed in babel v3.8h. I have not verified that, though. There exists a rather ugly workaround: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \RequirePackage[american]{babel} \documentclass{amsart} \title{Just a Small Test} \author{Rog\'erio Brito} \begin{document} \maketitle This is just a small test. \clearpage This is just a small test. \end{document} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cheerio ralf