Babelbidi – An extension to babel’s bidirectional support

This package extends Babel’s bidirectional support with direction-sensitive layout fixes and interfaces for text direction and language selection. It provides the \LRE, \RLE, \lr, and \rl commands; RTL, LTR, and latin environments; and \babelbidilangs for auxiliary text. It supports LuaTeX (recommended), XeTeX, and pdfTeX.

Sources	`/macros/latex/contrib/babelbidi`
Documentation	README.md Package documentation
Bug tracker	https://github.com/gambi-shah/babelbidi/issues
Repository	https://github.com/gambi-shah/babelbidi
Version	0.2.0 2026-10-11
Licenses	The LaTeX Project Public License 1.3c
Copyright	2026 Amer Amikhteh
Maintainer	Amer Amikhteh
Contained in	TeX Live as babelbidi
Topics	Bidirectional Multi-lingual

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2026-10-12 CTAN update: babelbidi
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