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## Babel 3.45
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 3.45 are described in:
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.45
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
```
3.45 2020-06-10
- Minor fixes in Hindi, Ancient Greek, Macedonian.
- Improvements in Kurdish, Marathi.
- Alternative date formats with \localedate[calendar=...,
variant=...]{y}{m}{d} (note: no calendar computations, just
strings).
- \today is (again) case-aware.
- \localenumeral{digits}{..} and \localecounter{digits}{cntr}
for native digits.
- Fixes
- Improved handling of math with \babelposthyphenation and
\babelprehyphenation (it was ignoring too much).
- An error related to \bbl@foreign@x could be raised in some
rare cases.
3.44 2020-05-13
- WARNING. If you need the Portuguese style you must update
babel-portuges.
- \localedate, to print date with the current locale.
- [|] syntax in dates, to represent a value with any counter
defined in the ini files.
- Amharic: line breaking (modern and traditional), counters.
- Improvements in French, Portuguese.
- Optional argument in \foreignlanguage and otherlanguage*,
to switch date and/or captions.
- Preliminary code for \babelprehyphenation.
- Fixes:
- \babelcharproperty{..}{linebreak]{..} raised an error.
- \babelposthyphenation raised an error if the last char in
the pattern was ].
- \babelposthyphenation is now deativated in math.
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.44
3.43 2020-04-28
- Autoloading based on the BCP47 codes, with basic lookup.
- Now only a few essential commands are loaded in the format.
- Improvements in Assamese, Luxembourgish, Marathi, Armenian,
Bengali, and Finnish.
- First steps in the removal of switch.def and plain.def.
- Fixes:
- Babel reset the \sfcode of » to 1000. It should be 0.
- \guillemotleft and \guillemotleft renamed to \guillemetleft
and \guillemetleft (#63).
- A couple of bugs related to autoloading.
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.43
3.42 2020-03-22
- \getlocaleproperty, to get the value of a field from the loaded
ini files.
- Added ini files for Syriac, Coptic and Church Slavic. Improved
some others (Armenian, Sanskrit).
- Added a new field tag.bcp47.likely to many files.
- Improved line breaking with xetex.
- Fixes:
- Remove extra space with languages loaded on the fly (bug
introduced in 3.41).
- Line breaking was no always correct with languages loaded on
the fly.
- Avoid a harmless warning about redefining a protected command
(#52).
- Locale was not switched correctly with COMBINING characters
(#54).
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.42
3.41 2020-02-27
- Counters and numerals added in some ini files, based on those
defined in CSS (Abjad, Alphabetic Hebrew, Japanese, etc.).
- Fix - A bug in the fix for #47, because \@elt was not reset
(#51).
- Fix - Error when french was loaded and an ini file read (#50).
- Fix - A typo in Greek files: Miriad must read Myriad.
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.41
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 (#47)
- Fix - Locale names were hardcoded in some babel-...tex files.
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.40
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).
```
Javier Bezos
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