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Babel 24.3

2024-03-29

babel is the multilingual framework for localizing documents in LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX. It manages culturally-determined typographical (and other) rules for about 170 to 300 languages, depending on the engine, with several levels of coverage. A few languages even work with Plain formats.

The latest stable version is available on https://ctan.org/pkg/babel.

Changes in version 24.3 are described in:

https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-24.3.html

Apart from the manual, you can find information on some aspects of babel at:

https://latex3.github.io/babel/

The best way to install and/or update it is with the help of package managers.

Reporting bugs

If you wish to report a problem or bug in any of these packages please use the Issue Tracker for LaTeX2e on GitHub and follow the guidelines that pop up if you press the New issue button.

In particular, to check that you are really seeing a bug, please write a short, self-contained document that shows the problem. This should include the latexbug package, which will warn if your test file is not suitable for one or the other reason. See the CONTRIBUTING guide for further details, or if you need to obtain the latexbug package.

If the bug turns out to be with third-party software then please contact the developer, and not us!

You may also report them to the current maintainer more informally on:

https://latex3.github.io/babel/contact.html

Bugs related to specific languages are best reported to their respective authors.

Summary of latest changes

24.3 2024-03-29
     * A silly mistake in the French locales: the interchar
       'punctuation.space' was named 'puntuation.space' (xetex)
     * New setting 'interchar.disable' in \babeladjust (xetex)
     * Experimental macro '\localebox' (luatex)
     * Alphabetic counter for Bodo (lua/xe)

Previous changes

See https://latex3.github.io/babel/#whats-new