CTAN Update: babel-beta
CTAN Announcements
ctan-ann at dante.de
Wed Jan 30 09:12:28 CET 2013
Javier Bezos submitted an update to the
babel-beta
package.
Summary description: Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is the second beta release of babel 3.9. The main aims of
this version are to fix bugs (there were lots) and to add basic
support for xetex and luatex.
Here is a list of most of the new and extended macros:
-- \usershorthands* is like \useshorthands but it makes sure
shorthands are always activated.
-- \defineshorthands can be used to (re)define system and
language shorthands, and a new level for language-dependent
user shorthands is added, which takes precedence over "normal"
user shorthands.
-- \shorthandoff* restores the original catcode or definition
(useful with ~ and ^).
-- \AfterBabelLanguage sets code to be executed at the end
of the corresponding ldf file.
-- \babelhyphen inserts a hyphen (soft, hard, nobreak...).
-- \babelhyphenation is like \hyphenation but for all
languages or specific ones (lccode changes are taken
into account).
-- \AddBabelHook sets code to be executed at some "events"
(\EnableBabelHook and \DisableBabelHook control them).
-- \StartBabelCommands, \SetString, and a few more, may be
used to define encoding dependent captions (eg, utf8 for
xetex and luatex)
New package options:
-- shorthands sets which language/system shorthands are
allowed.
-- safe sets if bib and/or ref macros are redefined.
-- config sets a different config file.
-- main sets the main language.
-- headfoot sets the language in heads and foots.
-- noconfigs: .cfg files are not loaded.
-- showlanguages prints to the log file the languages
preloaded
-- math sets the behaviour of shorthands in math mode
in the format.
I hope the final version will be available by March/April.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/babel-beta
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel-beta
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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