Babel Spanish.ldf error

Question

I have Windows 8.1 operation system and I installed Miktek 64 bits version for windows and TeXnicCenter 64 bits version.

These is basically the main file:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{quotes}  
\usepackage[margin=3cm,includefoot]{geometry}  
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath}  
\usepackage{amsthm}  
\usepackage{mathrsfs}  
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}  
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  
\usepackage{verbatim}   
\usepackage{stmaryrd}  
\usepackage{upgreek}  
\usepackage{enumerate}  
\usepackage{hyperref}  
\usepackage{graphicx}  
\title{Programación}  
\date{}  
\author{}  
\setlength{\parskip}{\baselineskip}  
\setlength{\parindent}{0cm}  
\newcommand{\afdmn}{\mathsf{AF2}^{M\mu\nu}} 
\begin{document}  
    \frontmatter  
    \tableofcontents  
    \frontmatter  
    \chapter*{Introducción}  
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introducción}    
    .
    .
    .
    \backmatter  
    \chapter*{Conclusión}  
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Conclusión}  
    .
    .
    .
    \begin{bibliography}  
    \bibitem{zxz}....  
    \end{bibliography}
\end{document}

And I can't get the outputfile. There are 242 error(s) into the spanish.ldf file, such as:

latex> ! Missing number, treated as zero.

In line

\StartBabelCommands*{spanish}{captions}
    [unicode, charset=utf8, fontenc=EU1 EU2]

I had tried with the 32 bits version as well as 64 bits version (both Miktek and TeXniCenter). Also I had run the update manager in order to install a recent version of babel but it didn't work.

What I'm doing wrong? What can I do?

Thanks

Answer 1

There were two problems:

First, there seems to be an incompatibility between the quotes package and babel. I suggest removing it. For an intelligent management of quotes, use csquotes.

Second, the environment for bibliography is thebibliography, not bibliography, and it requires an argument to determine the length of the longest label. However, unless your bibliography is very short, I would suggest to write a .bib file and use a specialised package like biblatex and biber.