CTAN update: babel

[CTAN Announcements]

Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the

                     babel

package.

Version:  3.61 2021-06-28
License:  lppl1.3

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

Announcement text:
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 Changes in version 3.61 are described in:

 https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.61.html

 Here is a summary:

 * Improved justification=kashida/elongated: hboxes (lua).

 * Transform danda.nobreak for several Indic scripts (lua):
   Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam,
   Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu.

 * Improved \babelprovide when used to reconfigure a language.

 * Fixes:
   - Partial fix for #114 (bad breaks and spacing with
     \selectlanguage).
   - \shorthandoff*{^} caused error for \section command (#129).

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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
   https://mirrors.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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