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Feeding

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[greek]{babel}%%% greek should not necessarily be the main language; e.g., [greek, ngerman] would also expose the bug.
\usepackage{cleveref}%%% option [ngerman] would not change the outcome.
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
\label{someLabel}
\end{document}

as mwe.tex to pdflatex leads to

! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 6. \fi <*> mwe

?

Versions:

  • pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2022/dev/Debian)
  • LaTeX2e <2021-06-01> patch level 1
  • cleveref 0.21.4 or 0.21.5 (both expose the bug)
  • greek.ldf 2020/11/10 v1.10
  • babel 2021/07/22 3.63

The bug occurs in current Debian testing "bookworm": https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=997024

The maintainers of cleveref, greek.ldf, and babel have been informed. Meanwhile, any workaround?

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The problem is in the \ensureascii macro. You can make it \protected.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[greek]{babel}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{cleveref}

\AtBeginDocument{\robustify\ensureascii}

\begin{document}

\pagenumbering{Roman}
\label{someLabel}

\end{document}
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  • Actually, \ensureascii is (indirectly) protected. The real issue in an \edef applied to \thepage instead of a \protected@edef in cleveref. But it’s a nice workaround.
    – Javier Bezos
    Oct 23 at 6:12
  • @JavierBezos cleveref expects \@Roman to be fully expandable (which it should be). Of course we all know the quirks of LGR encoding… In any case, littering the .aux file with {\fontencoding{OT1}\selectfont...} is not the best.
    – egreg
    Oct 23 at 16:22
  • Not exactly – cleveref expects \thepage to be fully expandable, and that’s wrong (the buggy line is \edef\@tempb{\thepage}) . \the... representations are not required to be fully expandable, and you can find examples in the LaTeX Companion where clearly they are not. Using \edef instead of \protected@edef with arbitrary stuff is a ‘classic’ (I myself have made this mistake several times). In fact, it fails even if you define \ensureascii with \DeclareRobustCommand, because the \protect is ignored, the reason being, again, the \edef. @egreg
    – Javier Bezos
    Oct 23 at 17:29
  • Here is a MWE bombing without babel: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{cleveref} \renewcommand\thepage{\textit{\arabic{page}}} \begin{document} \label{someLabel} Text \end{document}.
    – Javier Bezos
    Oct 23 at 18:01
  • @JavierBezos Yes, that bombs, but the definition is very dubiously useful.
    – egreg
    Oct 23 at 20:00
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You can restore the original Roman counter formatting:

\documentclass{article}

\makeatletter
\let\@RomanSaved\@Roman
\usepackage[greek]{babel}%%% greek should not necessarily be the main language; e.g., [greek, ngerman] would also expose the bug.
\usepackage{cleveref}%%% option [ngerman] would not change the outcome.
\let\@Roman\@RomanSaved
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{Roman}

\setcounter{page}{5}

\label{someLabel}
{\fontencoding{T1}\selectfont\pageref{someLabel}}
\end{document}

enter image description here

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  • But \pageref{someLabel} might produce really weird output. Try with \setcounter{page}{5} and issue \pageref{someLabel}.
    – egreg
    Oct 22 at 17:20
  • @egreg well it typesets as V so in either case you need \fontencoding{T1}\selectfont or a babel equivalent to see it typeset using a latin font.
    – David Carlisle
    Oct 22 at 17:47
  • No, it typesets an accent.
    – egreg
    Oct 22 at 17:54
  • @egreg ? it looks like a V to me, example extended.
    – David Carlisle
    Oct 22 at 18:25
  • Of course that works, but… My solution works without special treatments.
    – egreg
    Oct 22 at 19:49

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