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J|+rgen Spitzm|+ller submitted an update to the

babel-german

package.

Version: 2.99 2026-01-24
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Babel support for documents written in German

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

This release marks a major rewrite of babel-german. Next to minor bug fixes, the release features the following major changes:

* The sources and manuals of the previously separate 1901 and 1996 orthography (a.k.a. german and ngerman) have been merged into one common source and manual.
* New language option names are introduced: german-at, german-ch, german-de (alias german-austria, german-germany, german-switzerland) for contemporary (1996) orthography, german-at-1901, german-ch-1901, german-de-1901 (alias german-austria-1901, german-germany-1901, german-switzerland-1901) for traditional (1901) orthography. The received options (austrian, german, swissgerman, naustrian, ngerman, nswissgerman) are kept with their meaning, but discouraged from now on.
* By default and when using the new language options, babel-german now uses the new (exptl) hyphenation patterns. The received options keep using the legacy patterns by default.
* Introduce \germansetup for option specification. The capsz and toss options now also can be set this way (with a more general scope).
* Hyphenation patterns can now be specified directly (via \germansetup, in addition to the \babelprovide method which has a more granular scope)
* Introduce option "glottonyms" that specifies whether the option "german" activates old or contemporary orthography. By default, it still activates old, but this will change in a future version (presumably for TL 2026).
* Fix some shorthands (particularly their vmode behavior)

The manual includes elaborations about these changes, the rationales and future directions.

Also note that the package moved home. Find it now at https://codeberg.org/jspitz/babel-german

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J|+rgen Spitzm|+ller submitted an update to the

babel-german

package.

Version: 2.99b 2026-01-30
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Babel support for documents written in German

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

- Add convenience macro \addtocs

- \bbl@german@disc: Fix math mode for 1996 orthography and simplify

- Add macro \captionsallgerman for more convenient redefinition of
caption strings in all German varieties

- Rename \@captionsgerman@at to \captionsallatgerman

- Rename \@captionsgerman@ch to \captionsallchgerman

- \ck: Fix definition

- \germansetup: Allow to set gender mark via gendermark option

- Enhance the manual

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

The packagerCOs files themselves can be inspected at
https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/german/

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For the CTAN Team
Petra R|+be-Pugliese

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J|+rgen Spitzm|+ller submitted an update to the

babel-german

package.

Version: 2.99c 2026-02-14
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Babel support for documents written in German

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

This is a hotfix release which fixes a major regression with option patching

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This package is located at
https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/german

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


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