What’s new in babel 3.87

2023-03-28

hyphenrules

Now changes made with hyphenrules= in \babelprovide are immediately applied if the modified locale is the current one. Formerly, they where just set (not applied), but the new behavior seems to be the expected one. It’s a backwards incompatible change, but I don’t think this will pose too many problems.

Fixes

• Text misplaced with tikz. Fixed thanks to Salim Bou (#211).

• When a unhyphenated language (with prehyphenchar set to 0) was loaded on the fly, there was a language leakage, so that \foreinglanguage{..}{..} didn’t restore the surrounding language.

• With the multicol package and RTL text, the page body was sometimes shifted off the page (#228).

• Typo in the syllable counter name in Korean (it read mistakenly syllabe).

• There is a minor change in the way transforms deal with added discretionaries (technically, they are now of subtype regular instead of discretionary). The new value makes more sense and the result should be the same im most cases, except in some edge cases, where the hyphenation point will be better chosen.