## Babel 3.56 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 3.56 are described in: https://github.com/latex3/babel/blob/master/news-guides/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.56.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 ``` 3.56 2021-03-24 * Transforms (\babelprehyphenation, \babelposthyphenation) - Key 'space', in em units. - Key 'spacefactor', based on the current word separation. - Multiple 'insert's allowed. - Definable in 'ini' files. - Arbitrary characters in pattern. * Fixes: - 'insert' and 'data' didn't always set/get the expected node. - Hyphen was not shown in Marathi (#123) ``` ### Previous changes See https://github.com/latex3/babel/blob/master/news-guides/README.md#whats-new