CTAN Update: babel
Changes in version 3.46 are described in: https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.46 Here is a summary: - \BabelEnsureInfo now loads the basic data for the requested languages immediately (formerly it was done at the end of the preamble). - Fixes: - Getting rid of the hyphen in XeTeX was not working as expected. A new procedure has been devised. - tag.bcp47 now contains what its name promises, instead of just the language subtag (#70). - Locale info was not loaded if the name had uppercase letters in some OSs (#80). - The [..|..] syntax in ini dates didn't recognize 'digits'.
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 LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and Plain TeX
Babel is the multilingual environment for LaTeX (tailored for LuaTeX, pdfTeX and XeTeX), 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.
| Package | babel |
| Version | 25.12 2025-08-03 |
| Copyright | 1989–2012 Johannes Braams et al. 2012–2025 Javier Bezos and Johannes L. Braams |
| Maintainer | Javier Bezos López Johannes L. Braams (inactive) |