**Localization and internationalization ◾ pdfTeX, LuaTeX and XeTeX**
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This is the home page for Babel, a multilingual environment for latex (and sometimes plain) for the three basic engines (pdfTeX, LuaTeX and XeTeX). Its aim is to provide a localization framework for different languages, scripts, and cultures based on the latest advances in Unicode and other technologies.
- Non-standard hyphenation with luatex
Explains how to define special hyphenation rules like
ff→ff-f - Useful links to tex.strackexchange Examples for many languages: Chinese, Arabic, Sanskrit, etc.
- Using \babelprovide to modify or extend locales Hints on how to tailor your language to your needs in some frequent cases.
- Which method for which language
When to use the old good language files and when
\babelprovideorprovide=*.
| Version | Most relevant changes |
|---|---|
| 3.60 | Mainly a maintenance release. |
| 3.59 | Tentative Arabic justification. |
| 3.58 | More transforms for Sanskrit, Polish, Czech, Serbian, etc. |
| 3.57 | Predefined transforms for Arabic, Greek, Hungarian, etc. |
| 3.56 | Transforms (in ini files) |
| 3.55 | Mainly internal changes. Captions in Uyghur. |
| 3.54 | Improved picture. |
| 3.53 | Templates in \setlocalecaption. Captions in Sinhala. |
| 3.52 | Improvements in \babelprehyphenation and \babelposthyphenation. |
| 3.51 | \setlocalecaption, to (re)define captions at the document level. |
| 3.50 | A bug fix release for 3.49. |
| 3.49 | ini files: enable standard LaTeX syntax as options; French spacing. |
| 3.48 | Preliminary tools for labels (for languages like Japanese and Hungarian). |
| 3.47 | ini+tex templates for about 500 languages. |
| 3.46 | Option to select languages with BCP 47 tags. |
| 3.45 | Improvements in \localedate. |
| 3.44 | Argument in \foreignlanguage to switch date and/or captions. Amharic. |
| 3.43 | Autoloading based on BCP 47 codes. |
| 3.42 | \getlanguageproperty. Syriac, Coptic, Church Slavic. |
| 3.41 | Counters and numerals (alphabetic and additive). |
| 3.40 | Locale ini files for Latin and Greek. ‘Other’ characters in hyphenation patterns. |
| 3.39 | Locale loading on the fly. |
| 3.38 | Automatic switching of locale and fonts based on script (lua). |
| 3.37 | Non-standard hyphenation, like f-f → ff-f (lua). |
| 3.36 | Polytonic Greek. Improvements in Chinese. |
| 3.35 | Shorthands work in bibs and refs even with safe=none. |