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CTAN Update: babel

Date: September 19, 2017 7:41:54 PM CEST
Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the babel package. Version: 3.13 2017-09-18 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX Announcement text:
What's new ---------- - Existing ldf files take priority over declared options with \DeclareOption (except hebrew). - With a few exceptions, ini files have reached version 1.0. - New key `import' for \babelprovide, which also defines dates. This means babel currently provides (total or partial) support for about 200 languages. Many of them are usable with XeTeX and LuaTeX. Current development is focused on Unicode engines, mainly font handling and bidi writing.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/babel The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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babel – Multilingual support for , Lua, XeLaTeX, and Plain

Babel is the multilingual environment for (tailored for Lua, pdf and ), and sometimes Plain. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive localization framework for different languages, scripts and cultures based on the latest advances on international standards (Unicode, W3C, OpenType). It supports about 300 languages (with various levels of coverage) across about 45 scripts, including complex (like CJK, Indic) and RTL ones.

Besides the traditional .ldf files, there are many locales built on a modern core that utilizes descriptive .ini files, with tools providing precise control over hyphenation and line breaking, captions, date formats (across various calendars), spacing, transliteration, numbering and other locale-specific typographical rules.

Packagebabel
Version25.11 2025-07-13
Copyright1989–2012 Johannes Braams et al.
2012–2025 Javier Bezos and Johannes L. Braams
MaintainerJavier Bezos López
Johannes L. Braams (inactive)

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