What’s new in babel 3.42
2020-03-22
Getting properties from ini
files
Let’s say you need the string for the chapter name in Hebrew. You can write:
\getlocaleproperty{\hechap}{hebrew}{captions/chapter}
And \hechap
is set to the corresponding value.
\LocaleForEach
loops the loaded ini
files with #1
as the locale name. Here is a somewhat low level example:
\LocaleForEach{%
\getlocaleproperty\savetag{#1}{identification/tag.bcp47}%
\expandafter\xdef\csname tagtolocale\savetag\endcsname{#1}%
}
Coptic, Church Slavic, Syriac, Armenian, Sanskrit
ini
files for 3 locales have been added:
- Coptic, with 2 numerals:
epact
andlower.letters
. - Church Slavic, in 3 scripts: the ‘default’ Cyrl, plus Cyrs and Glag
- Syriac. See an example in https://github.com/latex3/babel/blob/master/samples/lua-syriac.pdf .
Armenian now has captions. [Warning. There are also numerals, but their names are not correct: they are lower
and upper
, but must be lower.letters
and upper.letters
. It will be fixed in the next release. Sorry for the slip.]
A few mistakes has been fixed in Sanskrit and Belarusian.
Also, a new property named tag.bcp47.likely
has been added to many locales, based on the Unicode data.
Improved line breaking with xetex
It should work with most South East Asian, Indic and CJK languages supported by XeTeX.
Fixes
- The main fix is a bug introduced in 3.41, an extra space with languages loaded on the fly.
- Line breaking was no always correct with languages loaded on the fly.
- Avoid a harmless warning about redefining a protected command (#52).
- Locale was not switched correctly with COMBINING characters (#54).