## Babel 3.28 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 . Languages are not part of the Babel core any more; in particular, it shall be no longer necessary to synchronize Babel core releases with releases of Babel language files. See CONTRIB for further details about contributing a language. You may also create an ini file or improve the existing ones -- it's a trivial task (no programming skills required at all), but don't hesitate to ask for help. 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. Changes are described in babel.pdf with the label "New ". The manual has been expanded to include some tips and tricks, but it will be improved in next releases. ### Reporting Bugs If you wish to report a problem or bug in any of these packages please use the [Issue Tracker for LaTeX2e on GitHub](https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues) 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](https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) 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 author more informally on: http://www.texnia.com/contact.html Bugs related to specific languages are best reported to their respective authors. ### Latest changes ``` 3.28 - Fixes - wrong dir after math, in math inside tabular, in weak L inside R inside L, and in boxes inside math. - \babelfont now takes into account \defaultfontfeatures. This is a potential source of backwards incompatibilities, but very likely the risks are very low, and it is, I think, the expected behavior. 3.27 - Preliminary support for bidi (by Vafa Khalighi) with xetex. - Fix for 3.23 - \ensureascii was redefined even when not necessary. - Minor improvements in babel-vi.ini. 3.26 - Fix for 3.25 - \babelprovide raised an error with xetex. 3.25 - Fixes for 3.23 - mapfont=direction could raise an error. Language and Script were not always defined correctly. - Improved tentative support for Thai, Lao and Khmer in both luatex and xetex. 3.24 - Prelimimary support for Thai interword spacing with luatex. 3.23 - After extensive tests and fixing some issues, bidi=basic is not experimental any longer. - import in \babelprovide does not require a language code if the language name is a recognized one. - New macro: \ifbabelshorthand. - TS1, T3 and TS3 have been added to the non-ascii list, to avoid problems in case no ASCII-savvy encoding is requested. - Define Language and Script if fontspec does not known them (eg, the Japanese script). - Set the \thepage bidi bahavior in foots/heads. - Fix - Undefined \bbl@stripslash in Plain. 3.22 - Fix - Error with \chapter if empty in ini - Prelimimary support for Sanskrit - Unknown languages in aux files do not raise an error any more (only show a warning). 3.21 - Fix - equation numbers raised an error. - Two minor changes: if no language is requested load nil instead of raising an error, and the message 'babel ...' is not printed to the log any more. 3.20 - ini files with the field digits.native define \digits and \counters. \arabic can be redefined to use native digits. - Fix - mapfont in bidi=basic didn't take into account combining marks (eg, Arabic vowels). - Fix - A bug introduced in 3.19, which sometimes reversed text in \hbox'es. - Fix for luatex 1.07 - An internal change in luatex broke bidi at 'automatic' hyphens. - Fix for latest latex - babel.ins raised an error. 3.19 - Most changes are for luatex: . The main new feature is a bidi method for both implicit L in R text, and implicit R in L text, with the possibility of switching the font automatically. Still somewhat experimental, but it should work in most cases. . layout=extras for a couple of miscellaneous readjustments. . bidi equation numbers. - Also, for all engines, new field in some ini files: digits.native (to be used in future releases). 3.18 - More bidi in luatex: captions (required only in multilingual docs) and tabular (required for R tables). Also an experimental support for captions in xetex and pdftex (tabular is not yet supported). - New ini files: ar-DZ, ar-MA, ar-SY - Fix - \begin{hyphenrules} didn't work with polyglossia. - Fix - switch.def was loaded twice. 3.17 - A tool for bidi footnotes. - Fix - \ragged... didn't work for bidi. 3.16 - New package option layout for bidi documents. - Quotes in TU encoding - Fix - \date did not work correctly - Fix - with some languages (eg, british), using \babelfont raised an error. ``` Javier Bezos 2019/04/01