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In Babel version 3.7 a number of bugs that were found in
version 3.6 are fixed. Also a number of changes and additions
have occured:
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- Shorthands are expandable again. The disadvantage is
that one has to type
'{}a
when the acute accent is used as a
shorthand character. The advantage is that a number of other
problems (such as the breaking of ligatures, etc.) have vanished.
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- Two new commands,
\shorthandon
and
\shorthandoff
have been introduced to enable to temporarliy
witch off one or more shorthands.
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- Support for typesetting Greek has been enhaced. Code
from the kdgreek package (suggested by the author) was
added and
\greeknumeral
has been added.
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- Support for typesetting Basque is now available
thanks to Juan Aguirregabiria.
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- Support for typesetting Serbian with latin script is
now available thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic and Jankovic Slobodan.
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- Support for typesetting Hebrew (and potential
support for typesetting other rigth-to-left written languages) is
now available thanks to Rama Porrat and Boris Lavva.
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- Support for typesetting Bulgarian is nowavailable
thanks to Georgi Boshnakov.
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- Support for typesetting Latin is now available,
thanks to Claudio Beccari and Krzysztof Konrad Zelechowski.
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- Support for typesetting North Sami is now available,
thanks to Regnor Jernsletten.
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- The options canadian, candien and
acadien have been added for Canadian English and French use.
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- A language attribute has been added to the
\mark...
commands in order to make sure that a greek header
line comes out right on the last page before a language switch.
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- Hyphenation pattern files are now read inside
a group; therefor any changes a pattern file needs to make to
lowercase codes, uppercase codes and category codes are kept local
to that group. If they are needed for the language, these changes
will need to be repeated and stored in
\extras...
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- The concept of language attributes is introduced. It
is intended to be used for giving the user some control over the use
of the features a language definition file provides. It's first use
is for the Greek language where the user can select to use the
(``Polutoniko'' or
multiaccented) Greek way of typesetting texts. These attributes wil
possibly find wider use in future releases.
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- The environment hyphenrules is introduced.
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- The command
\providehyphenmins
should now be
used in language definition files in order to be able to keep any
settings provided by the pattern file.
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2001-02-11