What’s new in babel 3.82

2022-10-23

Predefined transforms with \babelprovide

Now transforms can be activated with a second \babelprovide (or after a provide=*), so that the following code is valid:

\usepackage[kannada, provide=*]
\babelprovide[transforms = danda.nobreak]{kannada}

Formerly, the key transforms was ignored except if requested in the very first call.

Tibetan (xetex)

Some adjustments has been added to the ini file for Tibetan for it to work with XeTeX. However, features like text padding with tshegs won’t be available, because of the limitations of this engine.

Fixes

• babel restored in part the old \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase, which meant macros like \label raised again an error. A new patch minimizes this side effect.
• Fix for #182 (error with Thai and XeTeX) was not complete.

More updates to the CLDR 41

Albanian, Kinyarwanda, Maltese, Odia (= Oriya), Ossetic, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Romansh, Russian, Sakha, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali.