CTAN update: babel
Date: May 14, 2020 7:54:57 PM CEST
Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the
babel
package.
Version number: 3.44 2020-05-13
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX
Announcement text:
Changes in version 3.44 are described in: https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.44 Here is a summary: - 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 deactivated in math.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
Changes in version 3.44 are described in: https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.44 Here is a summary: - 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 deactivated in math.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
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) |