CTAN Update: babel

[CTAN Announcements]

Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the

                babel

package.

Version:  3.23 2018-09-02
License:  lppl1.3

Summary description:  Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX

Announcement text:
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New

 - After extensive tests and fixing some issues, bidi=basic is
   not experimental any longer.

 - import in \babelprovide does not require a language code if
   the language name is a recognized one.

 - New macro: \ifbabelshorthand.

 - TS1, T3 and TS3 have been added to the non-ascii list, to
   avoid problems in case no ASCII-savvy encoding is requested.

 - Define Language and Script if fontspec does not known them (eg,
   the Japanese script).

 - Set the \thepage bidi bahavior in foots/heads.

 - Fix - Undefined \bbl at stripslash in Plain.

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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   https://ctan.org/pkg/babel

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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