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I recently started using standalone to compile a tikzpicture and convert it to PNG. Thus I use the following type of Document together with

\documentclass[convert,tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\begin{document}
  \tikz\node {Hallo da drau"sen};
\end{document}

and get the error message

(C:\Users\...path..\Test.aux

! Package babel Error: You haven't loaded the option ngerman yet.

See the babel package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.3 \select@language{ngerman}

You may proceed, but expect unexpected results

)

Neverless the result indicates that the ngerman additions by babel were loaded (i.e. the ß for "s is being typeset correctly).

I am aware of this question which proposes deleting all auxiliary files. But on the next run the error is back.

Further investigation shows the possibility to condense the problem even more:

\documentclass[convert]{standalone}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\begin{document}
  X
\end{document}

The error however does not occur without the convert option or without babel. The choice of language doesn't seem to make any difference.

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David Woitkowski
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One wonders why the class loads in this case the aux-file so early. But probably there is a reason ...

Imho you can simply ignore the error. It doesn't do harm. You can avoid it by creating a standalone.cfg in the current folder with the content

 \RequirePackage[ngerman]{babel}

Then babel is loaded earlier.

Ulrike Fischer
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