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  • CTAN update: babel

    From CTAN Announcements@petra@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Mon Jun 15 14:17:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Javier Bezos L||pez submitted an update to the

    babel

    package.

    Version: 26.9 2026-06-14
    License: lppl1.3

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

    Announcement text: ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Changes in version 26.9 are described in:

    https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-26.9.html

    Here is a summary:

    * Added support for `other-languages` in `\DocumentMetadata`.
    * Some improvements in the Breton ini file, based on the new ldf
    style by Jacques Andr|-.
    * Fix: With (Plain) xetex an error was raised (#430)

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    The packagerCOs Catalogue entry can be viewed at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/babel

    The packagerCOs 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 R|+be-Pugliese

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  • From CTAN Announcements@petra@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Sun Aug 9 12:57:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Javier Bezos L||pez submitted an update to the

    babel

    package.

    Version: 26.10 2026-08-08
    License: lppl1.3

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

    Announcement text: ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Changes in version 26.10 are described in:

    https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-26.10.html

    Here is a summary:
    * Breaking change (bidi texts): Now the option layout=tabular has
    been made the default.
    * New locale: persian-latin, thanks to @RamtinMoslemi.
    * Fix: Variant was ignored with BCP 47 tags.
    * Support for the new lua-calendrica package.

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    The packagerCOs Catalogue entry can be viewed at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/babel

    The packagerCOs files themselves can be inspected at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base/

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Petra R|+be-Pugliese

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  • From CTAN Announcements via ctan-ann@erik@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Sat Aug 22 22:18:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Javier Bezos L<pez submitted an update to the

    babel

    package.

    Version: 26.11 2026-08-21
    License: lppl1.3

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

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Changes in version 26.11 are described in:

    https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-26.11.html

    Here is a summary:

    * Chinese: new counters `formal` and `informal`.
    * New calendar `indian` for 15 Indic locales (Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil...).

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    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base

    More information is at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/babel


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    For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun


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  • From CTAN Announcements via ctan-ann@erik@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Thu Sep 10 21:54:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Javier Bezos L<pez submitted an update to the

    babel

    package.

    Version: 26.12 2026-09-09
    License: lppl1.3

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

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Changes in version 26.12 are described in:

    https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-26.12.html

    Here is a summary:

    * New locale: chinese-pinyin (with transform 'tone.numeric' for luatex).
    * 'calendrica' can be used to set the default '\today' format.
    * Fix: wrong text direction with '\text' in '\[`...`\]'.

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    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base

    More information is at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/babel


    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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    For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun


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  • From CTAN Announcements@manfred@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Mon Sep 28 21:56:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Javier Bezos L||pez submitted an update to the

    babel

    package.

    Version: 26.13 2026-09-27
    License: lppl1.3

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

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Changes in version 26.13 are described in:

    https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-26.13.html

    Here is a summary:
    * Minor improvements in `chinese-pinyin'.
    * Captions in `malagasy' (thanks to Ralahady Bruno Bakys).
    * Fixes:
    - Misplaced glues at end of lines with mixed directions.
    - Value in mapdot= was ignored.
    - Isolate paragraph-like section titles with bidi. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base

    More information is at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/babel


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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Manfred Lotz


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