CTAN update: babel
Date: October 17, 2013 12:56:19 PM CEST
The daemon reports:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: babel
> Author's name: Javier Bezos
> 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:
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> What's new
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> - (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
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> Uploader's additional comments:
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> bbplain.dtx is not included any longer, because it has been merged with babel.dtx
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> 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 new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
babel – Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX
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. Included is also a set of ini files for about 200 languages.
Many language styles work with pdfLaTeX, as well as with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, out of the box. A few even work with plain formats.
| Package | babel |
| Version | 3.38 2020-01-15 |
| Copyright | 1989–2012 Johannes Braams et al. 2012–2020 Javier Bezos and Johannes L. Braams |
| Maintainer | Javier Bezos López Johannes L. Braams (inactive) |