CTAN update: babel

[CTAN Announcements]

Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the

                babel

package.

Version number: 3.44 2020-05-13
License type: lppl1.3

Summary description: Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX

Announcement text:
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Changes in version 3.44 are described in:

https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.44

Here is a summary:

- 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 deactivated in math.

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.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
    Manfred Lotz


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