## Babel 3.58 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. Included is a set of ini files for about 250 languages. The latest stable version is available on . Changes in version 3.58 are described in: https://github.com/latex3/babel/blob/master/news-guides/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.58.md Apart from the manual, you can find information on some aspects of babel at: https://github.com/latex3/babel/tree/master/news-guides 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 LaTeX2e on GitHub](https://github.com/latex3/babel/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 current maintainer more informally on: http://www.texnia.com/contact.html Bugs related to specific languages are best reported to their respective authors. ### Summary of Latest changes ``` 3.58 2021-04-26 * More predefined transforms (lua): - doubleletter.hyphen: Norsk - oneletter.nobreak: Czech, Polish, Slovak - hyphen.repeat: Czech, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish - punctuation.space: Hindi, Sanskrit - transliteration.hk: Sanskrit - transliteration.gajica: Serbian * 'prehyphenation' transforms are now disabled in verbatim. * New line breaking mode ‘unhyphenated’. * Fix: \shorthandoff*{^} was not revertible (#126). * Experimental code for Arabic justification (with elongated forms: lua). 3.57 2021-04-07 * Predefined transforms (lua): - Arabic: transliteration.dad - Croatian: digraphs.ligatures - Greek: diaeresis.hyphen - Hindi: transliteration.hk - Hungarian: digraphs.hyphen * Transforms: {xxxx} syntax also in string=. * Preliminary code for Uyghur hyphenation (lua). * magyar as alternative to hungarian in \babelprovide. ``` ### Previous changes See https://github.com/latex3/babel/blob/master/news-guides/README.md#whats-new