CTAN Update: babel
Date: July 20, 2019 7:55:02 PM CEST
Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the
babel
package.
Version: 3.33 2019-07-19
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX
Announcement text:
New - \prehyphenchar set to 0 in languages requiring it: kannada, marathi, tamil, etc. (lua). - \AddBabelHook can be set for specific languages. - Fix - !\grq in T1 behaved like the ligature !`. - Minimal preliminary support for the experimental harftex.
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
We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
New - \prehyphenchar set to 0 in languages requiring it: kannada, marathi, tamil, etc. (lua). - \AddBabelHook can be set for specific languages. - Fix - !\grq in T1 behaved like the ligature !`. - Minimal preliminary support for the experimental harftex.
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
We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
babel – Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and Plain TeX
This package manages culturally-determined typographical (and other) rules for a wide range of languages. A document may select a single language to be supported, or it may select several, in which case the document may switch from one language to another in a variety of ways.
Babel uses contributed configuration files that provide the detail of what has to be done for each language, as well as .ini files for about 300 languages from around the World, including many written in non-Latin and RTL scripts. Many of them work with pdfLaTeX, as well as with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, out of the box. A few even work with plain formats.
| Package | babel |
| Version | 25.10 2025-06-10 |
| Copyright | 1989–2012 Johannes Braams et al. 2012–2025 Javier Bezos and Johannes L. Braams |
| Maintainer | Javier Bezos López Johannes L. Braams (inactive) |