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I am getting an option clash for babel using: \usepackage[greek,english]{babel}. Here is the output:

! LaTeX Error: Option clash for package babel.

Does anyone know what might be causing this? I've tried Googling and have seen many others use these options together, but I cannot get it to work. Here is my full latex heading:

\documentclass[article,11pt]{Latex/Classes/PhDthesisPSnPDF}
\raggedbottom
\setcitestyle{square}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage[greek,english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amstext}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\makeatletter
\def\NAT@def@citea{\def\@citea{\NAT@separator}}
\makeatother
gnychis
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    It's because the class you're using (I googled for it and found it here) already calls babel with the english option. The solution is to pass the greek option when loading the class file (\documentclass[greek,<...>]{<class>}. You could also call it with a \PassOptionsToPackage{greek,english}{babel} before \documentclass (as shown in the answers to this question) – henrique Sep 25 '13 at 18:24
  • @henrique, why don't you make this comment an answer? – nickie Sep 25 '13 at 18:32
  • unrelated to the problem but the argument to \documentclass is supposed to be the name of a class not a file path \documentclass[article,11pt]{Latex/Classes/PhDthesisPSnPDF} should be \documentclass[article,11pt]{PhDthesisPSnPDF} after ensurimg that latex/classes is in your TeX input path. – David Carlisle Sep 25 '13 at 20:17
  • @DavidCarlisle here's how the class file names it: \ProvidesClass{Latex/Classes/PhDthesisPSnPDF}[2007/09/06 v2 PhD thesis class] – henrique Sep 25 '13 at 22:09
  • @nickie, I did so, but I think it's a possible duplicate of Conflict between Options of Packages – henrique Sep 25 '13 at 22:12
  • @henrique uggg:( – David Carlisle Sep 25 '13 at 23:20

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It's because the class you're using (available here) already calls babel with the english option. The solution is to pass the greek option when loading the class file with

\documentclass[greek,<...>]{<class>}

You could also call it with a \PassOptionsToPackage{greek,english}{babel} before loading the package, therefore before \documentclass, since the class is loading it.

See:

barbara beeton
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henrique
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    In my opinion classes should never load babel or inputenc: it just makes life more difficult for users. It's surely simpler telling them to load babel with the desired language options. – egreg Sep 25 '13 at 22:20
  • Note that if you're using \PassOptionsToPackage, this should be called before the \usepackage command. This may seem trivial, but isn't always for a newbie. – Keelan Sep 09 '14 at 17:53
  • @CamilStaps Good point. I added some more links to (I hope) help clarify this – henrique Sep 12 '14 at 11:37