More ini’s. Expanded Hebrew numerals.

docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.93.md

@@ -5,19 +5,24 @@
 
 ## Hebrew counters
 
-Converted by Udi Fogiel @Udi-Fogiel (with some retouches) from the
-original definitions in `babel-hebrew`. To be used with
-`\localenumeral` and `\localecounter`. 
+The `ini` locales for Hebrew and Yiddish provide a numeral named
+`letters`, with the usual form in the modern varieties. However, there
+are some variants provided by `babel-hebrew` (the `ldf' definition),
+which were absent. Udi Fogiel (@Udi-Fogiel) has made them fully
+expandable and now are also available if the locale is explicitly loaded
+with `provide` or `\babelprovide` (in other words, the aren’t available
+in these locales if loaded on the fly). The limit is 999999.
 
-Provisional names. The limit is 999999.
+They are used with `\localenumeral` and `\localecounter`. See the
+`babel` manual for further information on these commands.
 
-`letters.long` same as `\hebrewnumeral`.
+* `letters.long` [provisional name] same as `\hebrewnumeral`, and same
+  as `letters`, except values larger than 9999 are valid (but still up
+  to 999999).
 
-`letters.gershayim` same as `\Hebrewnumeral` 
+* `letters.gershayim` same as `\Hebrewnumeral`.
 
-`letters.final` same as `\Hebrewnumeralfinal`.
-
-They are available in `hebrew` and `yiddish`.
+* `letters.final` same as `\Hebrewnumeralfinal`.
 
 It can be customized with two macros:
 * `\BabelHebrewNumeralMarkerSingle`, set by default to geresh.
@@ -30,10 +35,10 @@ re(set) these values with the language.
 
 * Table with arabic text corrupted when trying to colour cells (#252).
 * Bold small caps were wrong in some cases (#92). This is not really a
-  bug in `babel`, because I was able to reproduce it without the
-  package (in fact, not a long time ago it worked fine), but rather an
+  bug in `babel`, because not a long time ago it worked as expected
+  and I was able to reproduce the issue without it. It’s rather an
   improvement in the way fonts are switched with languages (LaTeX
-  assumes a single font and a single series per family).
+  assumes a single font and a single series tag per family).
 
 ## New locale files
 
@@ -43,4 +48,15 @@ included in the default `babel` distribution. This can serve to encourage
 contributions, too. A warning will remember they are ‘bare
 minumum locales’. The locales added in this release are:
 
-* `southernaltai`
+* `southernaltai`
+* `divehi`
+* `ancientegyptian` 
+* `egyptianarabic` (aka Masri or Colloquial Egyptian, with tag `arz`,
+  not ot be confused with the Standard Arabic as spoken in Egypt, with
+  tag `ar-EG`).
+* `phoenician` (note it’s an RTL language)
+* `newari`
+
+Note some of these language are not targeted (at least currently) by
+the Unicode CLDR, which is focused on written modern languages. This is
+not true for LaTeX.