CTAN update: babel

Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the babel package. Version: 25.15 2025-11-09 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and Plain TeX Announcement text:

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Changes in version 25.15 are described in: https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-25.15.html Here is a summary: * Greek: - Fix: wrong diacritics in Unicode engines and the ldf mechanism. - In Ancient Greek, now use 'lower.ancient' in dates by default. - Calendar variants: 'letters' for Polytonic, 'digits' for Ancient. - New counter: 'attic'. - \greeknumeral is more customizable and can be accessed with the new counter 'ionian'. * Font options can go at the end of \babelfont (like \set...font). * Fix some issues in the {HHHH} notation in transforms. * Internal changes related the new language loader, including some messages.

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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/babel The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base/

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Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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