CTAN update: babel

[CTAN Announcements]

Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the

                babel

package.

Version number: 24.5 2024-05-18
License type: lppl1.3

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

Announcement text:
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Changes in version 24.5 are described in:

https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-24.5.html

Here is a summary:

* Change the first item in `abjad` and `maghrebi.abjad` counters in `ar-DZ`, `ar-MA` and `ar-TN`, from ا to أ.
* Fixed an error when a locale is loaded on the fly and there are empty captions in another language (#294)
* Fix in transforms (lua): negative values in `space` and `spacefactor` raised and error.


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This package is located at 
   https://mirrors.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
    Erik Braun

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