Directory macros/latex/required/babel/base

Babel 3.45

This package manages culturally-determined typographical (and other) rules, and hyphenation patterns for a wide range of 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.

The latest stable version is available on https://ctan.org/pkg/babel.

Changes in version 3.45 are described in:

https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.45

Included is a set of ini files for about 200 languages.

The best way to install and/or update it is with the help of package managers.

Reporting Bugs

If you wish to report a problem or bug in any of these packages please use the Issue Tracker for LaTeX2ε on GitHub and follow the guidelines that pop up if you press the New issue button.

In particular, to check that you are really seeing a bug, please write a short, self-contained document that shows the problem. This should include the latexbug package, which will warn if your test file is not suitable for one or the other reason. See the CONTRIBUTING guide for further details, or if you need to obtain the latexbug package.

If the bug turns out to be with third-party software then please contact the developer, and not us!

You may also report them to the current maintainer more informally on:

http://www.texnia.com/contact.html

Bugs related to specific languages are best reported to their respective authors.

Latest changes

3.45   2020-06-10
       - Minor fixes in Hindi, Ancient Greek, Macedonian.
       - Improvements in Kurdish, Marathi.
       - Alternative date formats with \localedate[calendar=...,
         variant=...]{y}{m}{d} (note: no calendar computations, just
         strings).
       - \today is (again) case-aware.
       - \localenumeral{digits}{..} and \localecounter{digits}{cntr}
         for native digits.
       - Fixes
         - Improved handling of math with \babelposthyphenation and
           \babelprehyphenation (it was ignoring too much).
         - An error related to \bbl@foreign@x could be raised in some
           rare cases.

3.44   2020-05-13
       - WARNING. If you need the Portuguese style you must update
         babel-portuges.
       - \localedate, to print date with the current locale.
       - [|] syntax in dates, to represent a value with any counter
         defined in the ini files.
       - Amharic: line breaking (modern and traditional), counters.
       - Improvements in French, Portuguese.
       - Optional argument in \foreignlanguage and otherlanguage*,
         to switch date and/or captions.
       - Preliminary code for \babelprehyphenation.
       - Fixes:
         - \babelcharproperty{..}{linebreak]{..} raised an error.
         - \babelposthyphenation raised an error if the last char in
           the pattern was ].       
         - \babelposthyphenation is now deativated in math.
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.44
       
3.43   2020-04-28
       - Autoloading based on the BCP47 codes, with basic lookup.
       - Now only a few essential commands are loaded in the format.
       - Improvements in Assamese, Luxembourgish, Marathi, Armenian,
         Bengali, and Finnish.
       - First steps in the removal of switch.def and plain.def.
       - Fixes:
         - Babel reset the \sfcode of » to 1000. It should be 0.
         - \guillemotleft and \guillemotleft renamed to \guillemetleft
           and \guillemetleft (#63).
         - A couple of bugs related to autoloading.
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.43
       
3.42   2020-03-22
       - \getlocaleproperty, to get the value of a field from the loaded
         ini files.
       - Added ini files for Syriac, Coptic and Church Slavic. Improved
         some others (Armenian, Sanskrit).
       - Added a new field tag.bcp47.likely to many files.
       - Improved line breaking with xetex.
       - Fixes:
         - Remove extra space with languages loaded on the fly (bug
           introduced in 3.41).
         - Line breaking was no always correct with languages loaded on
           the fly.
         - Avoid a harmless warning about redefining a protected command
           (#52). 
         - Locale was not switched correctly with COMBINING characters
           (#54).
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.42
           
3.41   2020-02-27
       - Counters and numerals added in some ini files, based on those
         defined in CSS (Abjad, Alphabetic Hebrew, Japanese, etc.).
       - Fix - A bug in the fix for #47, because \@elt was not reset
         (#51).
       - Fix - Error when french was loaded and an ini file read (#50).
       - Fix - A typo in Greek files: Miriad must read Myriad.
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.41
       
3.40   2020-02-14
       - New ini files for Latin and Greek (xe/lua).
       - Add 'other' characters used in hyphenation patters (eg,
         apostrophes).
       - Fix - Old Plain TeX and Plain XeTeX raised an error.
       - Fix - Option T1 in fontenc was not recognized to set
         \latinencoding with LaTeX 2020-02-02 (#47)
       - Fix - Locale names were hardcoded in some babel-...tex files.
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.40

3.39   2020-02-03
       - Languages can now be loaded on the fly (via \babelprovide).
       - With \babelposthyphenation captured chars can now be mapped in
         the replacement (lua).
       - \babelcharproperty can be used to assign specific chars to a
         locale (lua).
       - Fixes:
          - Sichuan Yi: line breaking was not activated (lua).
          - Hyphenation was not always applied with onchar (lua).
          - bidi=basic-l/basic-r where not activated correctly (xe).
          - Thai and turkish raised and error without import in
            \babelprovide.
          - Cleaned up some ini/tex locale files (de, zh, sa).
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.39

3.38   2020-01-15
       - Automatic switching of ids (\language and \localeid), and fonts
         based on script blocks (lua).
       - New macro - \localeinfo, to access the basic data in the ini
         file loaded by languages.
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.38

3.37   2019-12-08
       - Preliminary code for non-standard hyphenation, like ff ->
         ff-f (lua).
       - \babelprovide now can be used to add or modify values for the
         keys in ini files.
       - Line breaking in South East Asian and CKJ is assimilated to
         hyphenation, and it is activated even without 'import' (lua).      
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.37

3.36   2019-11-14
       - New - \babeladjust, with options: bidi.text, bidi.mirroring,
         bidi.mapdigits, layout.tabular, layout.lists, linebreak.sea,
         linebreak.cjk. There are still some limitations (lua).
       - New - ini for Polytonic Greek, thanks to Claudio Beccari.
       - Fix - Language and script set for Chinese Tradicional and
         Chinese Simplified.        
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.36

3.35   2019-10-15
       - \markboth and \markright made robust with a recent LaTeX.
       - Shorthands work in bibs and refs even with safe=none.
       - Fix - Another issue related to \ensureascii and LGR (#30)
       - A temporary hack for issue #25.

3.34   2019-09-27
       - Improved compatibility for \babelfont vs \setmainfont.
       - Fix - active ' entered in an infinite loop with lua (#27).
       - Fix - main in \babelprovide was not set until begin document.

3.33   2019-07-19
       - \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 !` (#19).
       - Minimal preliminary support for the experimental harftex.

3.32   2019-06-03
       - CJK line breaking is now disabled in verbatim (lua).
       - New - \babelcharproperty, to change the direction, mirroring
         glyph and line break properties (lua).
       - Basic support for the picture environment (with pict2e) and pgf
         (lua, somewhat experimental).
       - Start support for harftex (just try - it may work).

Javier Bezos