CTAN has a new package: babeltools

[CTAN Announcements]

This should be at your local mirror.

Jim  Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: babeltools
Version number: 0.2
Author's name: Javier Bezos
Summary description: Fixing (some) babel annoyances
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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With babeltools, you can decide which shorthands are used or
even cancel its mechanism altogether. An alternative
implementation is provided. You can prevent config files to
be loaded, and macros for citations and cross references to
be redefined, too.
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This package is at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bezos
.  Information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/babeltools
(it may take a day for the information to appear).  We are supported 
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  For your users group 
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .