CTAN update: babel
Date: October 14, 2013 12:14:23 PM CEST
> Package version: 3.9g
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/required/babel/
> Summary description: Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX
> License type: lppl
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
>
> What's new
>
> - (With \fontspec) A tentative way to select font features depending
> on the language is provided, with a couple of macros.
> - bbplain.dtx has been included in babel.dtx.
>
> The rest of changes are some minor fixes and tools for ldf developers:
> - A new mechanism to force \StartBabelCommands even
> without the 'strings' key (\UseStrings didn't work at all).
> - With \AfterBabelCommands macros can be defined in the global scope.
> - A tool for readjusting lccodes for hyphenation (\SetHyphenMap
> and a package option).
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>
> Announcement required: Yes
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/
thanks for the upload; i've installed the files, and updated the
catalogue repository.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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) |