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## Babel 3.40
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 <https://ctan.org/pkg/babel>.
Changes in version 3.40 are described in:
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.40
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.
### 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.
### Latest changes
```
3.40 2020-02-14
- New ini files for Latin and Greek (xe/lua).
- Add 'other' characters used in hyphenation patters (eg,
apostrophes).
- Fix - Old Plain TeX and Plain XeTeX raised an error.
- Fix - Option T1 in fontenc was not recognized to set
\latinencoding with LaTeX 2020-02-02.
- Fix - Locale names were hardcoded in some babel-...tex files.
3.39 2020-02-03
- Languages can now be loaded on the fly (via \babelprovide).
- With \babelposthyphenation captured chars can now be mapped in
the replacement (lua).
- \babelcharproperty can be used to assign specific chars to a
locale (lua).
- Fixes:
- Sichuan Yi: line breaking was not activated (lua).
- Hyphenation was not always applied with onchar (lua).
- bidi=basic-l/basic-r where not activated correctly (xe).
- Thai and turkish raised and error without import in
\babelprovide.
- Cleaned up some ini/tex locale files (de, zh, sa).
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.39
3.38 2020-01-15
- Automatic switching of ids (\language and \localeid), and fonts
based on script blocks (lua).
- New macro - \localeinfo, to access the basic data in the ini
file loaded by languages.
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.38
3.37 2019-12-08
- Preliminary code for non-standard hyphenation, like ff ->
ff-f (lua).
- \babelprovide now can be used to add or modify values for the
keys in ini files.
- Line breaking in South East Asian and CKJ is assimilated to
hyphenation, and it is activated even without 'import' (lua).
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.37
3.36 2019-11-14
- New - \babeladjust, with options: bidi.text, bidi.mirroring,
bidi.mapdigits, layout.tabular, layout.lists, linebreak.sea,
linebreak.cjk. There are still some limitations (lua).
- New - ini for Polytonic Greek, thanks to Claudio Beccari.
- Fix - Language and script set for Chinese Tradicional and
Chinese Simplified.
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.36
3.35 2019-10-15
- \markboth and \markright made robust with a recent LaTeX.
- Shorthands work in bibs and refs even with safe=none.
- Fix - Another issue related to \ensureascii and LGR (#30)
- A temporary hack for issue #25.
3.34 2019-09-27
- Improved compatibility for \babelfont vs \setmainfont.
- Fix - active ' entered in an infinite loop with lua (#27).
- Fix - main in \babelprovide was not set until begin document.
3.33 2019-07-19
- \prehyphenchar set to 0 in languages requiring it: kannada,
marathi, tamil, etc. (lua).
- \AddBabelHook can be set for specific languages.
- Fix - !\grq in T1 behaved like the ligature !` (#19).
- Minimal preliminary support for the experimental harftex.
3.32 2019-06-03
- CJK line breaking is now disabled in verbatim (lua).
- New - \babelcharproperty, to change the direction, mirroring
glyph and line break properties (lua).
- Basic support for the picture environment (with pict2e) and pgf
(lua, somewhat experimental).
- Start support for harftex (just try - it may work).
3.31 2019-05-04
- Basic support for line breaking with CJK scripts (lua)
- layout=tabular now works with the 'array' package (and some
others; lua).
3.30 2019-04-22
- Fix - dir in boxes inside math (hopefully now it works; lua).
- Option mapdigits for \babelprovide, which converts European
digits to local ones (lua).
3.29 2019-04-03
- The fix for boxes inside math is incompatible with ams.
Removed (a better fix is under study).
- Options bidi-l and bidi-r (for the bidi package; xe).
3.28 2019-04-01
- 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.
```
Javier Bezos
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