CTAN update: babel

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at ctan.org
Tue Jun 27 21:29:50 CEST 2023


Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the

                babel

package.

Version number: 3.90 2023-06-26
License type: lppl1.3

Summary description: Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and 
Plain TeX

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Changes in version 3.90 are described in:

https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.90.html

Here is a summary:

* Main language selected at begindocument/before (#240).
* Option to limit the number of inserted tatweel.
* New macros \BabelUppercaseMapping and \BabelLowercaseMapping.
* Fix: line breaking was sometimes prevented when switching the text direction (#213).
* Locale names (in ini files):
  - `classicallatin` and `ecclesiasticallatin` now preferred to `classiclatin` and `ecclesiasticlatin`.
  - `farsi` is a synonymous for `persian`.
  - `vietnam` removed - use `vietnamese`.


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This package is located at
   https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base

More information is at
   https://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun

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