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+ Hi,
+
+ This is the announcement of babel release 3.8,
+
+ What's new in release 3.8?
+ Actually babel 3.8 is very much like the later releases of
+ babel 3.7. Support for a number of languages has been added.
+ Here is a list of the changes since babel 3.7h:
+ - Shorthands are expandable again. The disadvantage is that
+ one has to type '{}a when the acute accent is used as a
+ shorthand character. The advantage is that a number of other
+ problems (such as the breaking of ligatures, etc.) have
+ vanished.
+ - Two new commands, \shorthandon and \shorthandoff have
+ been introduced to enable to temporarily switch off one or more
+ shorthands.
+ - The support for Hebrew has been updated by Tzafrir Cohen
+ - Support for Slovak has been extended with shorthand
+ definitions.
+ - Support for typesetting Sanskrit in transliteration will
+ be made available in a later release of babel.
+ - Support for typesetting Kannada, Devnagari and Tamil will
+ be made available in a later release of babel.
+ - Support for typesetting interlingua is now available, thanks to
+ Peter Kleiweg <kleiweg@let.rug.nl>.
+
+ The last remark: where can you get babel 3.8?
+ It is available in the directory
+ /tex-archive/macros/latex/rewuired/babel on CTAN.
+
+ Happy LaTeXing!
+
+ Johannes Braams
+
+TeXniek, Kersengaarde 33,
+2723 BP Zoetermeer The Netherlands.
+Phone : +31 79 352 28 19 E-mail : johannes at braams.cistron.nl
+Fax : +31 70 343 41 85
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