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\publicationmonth{October}
\publicationyear{2020}

\publicationissue{32}

\begin{document}

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\medskip


\section{Introduction}

This document is under construction \ldots



\section{Providing \pkg{xparse} in the format}

The official interface in the \LaTeXe{} kernel for creating
document-level commands has always been \cs{newcommand}. This was a
big step forward from \LaTeX~2.09. However, it was still very limited
in the types of command it can create: those taking at most one
optional argument in square brackets, then zero or more mandatory
arguments. Richer syntaxes required use of the \TeX{} \cs{def}
primitive along with appropriate low-level macro programming.

The \LaTeX{} team started work on a comprehensive document-command
parser, \pkg{xparse}, in the late 1990s. In the past decade, the
experimental ideas it provides have been carefully worked through and
moved to a stable footing. As such, \pkg{xparse} is now used to define
a very large number of document and package commands. It does this by
providing a rich and self-consistent syntax to describe a wide range
interfaces seen in \LaTeX{} packages.

The ideas developed in \pkg{xparse} are now sufficiently well-tested
that the majority can be transferred into the \LaTeX{} kernel. Thus
the following commands have been added
\begin{itemize}
  \item \cs{NewDocumentCommand}, \cs{RenewDocumentCommand},
    \cs{ProvideDocumentCommand}, \cs{DeclareDocumentCommand}
  \item \cs{NewExpandableDocumentCommand}, \cs{RenewExpandableDocumentCommand},
    \cs{ProvideExpandableDocumentCommand}, \cs{DeclareExpandableDocumentCommand}
  \item \cs{NewDocumentEnvironment}, \cs{RenewDocumentEnvironment},
    \cs{ProvideDocumentEnvironment}, \cs{DeclareDocumentEnvironment}
  \item \cs{BooleanTrue} \cs{BooleanFalse}
  \item \cs{IfBooleanTF}, \cs{IfBooleanT}, \cs{IfBooleanF}
  \item \cs{IfNoValueTF}, \cs{IfNoValueT}, \cs{IfNoValueF}
  \item \cs{IfValueTF}, \cs{IfValueT}, \cs{IfValueF}
  \item \cs{SplitArgument}, \cs{SplitList}, \cs{TrimSpaces},
    \cs{ProcessList}, \cs{ReverseBoolean}
  \item \cs{GetDocumentCommandArgSpec}
    \cs{GetDocumentEnvironmentArgSpec}
\end{itemize}

Most, but not all, of the argument types defined by \pkg{xparse} are
now supported at the kernel level. In particular, the types
\texttt{g}/\texttt{G}, \texttt{l} and \texttt{u} are \emph{not} provided by
the kernel code; these are deprecated but still available by
explicitly loading \pkg{xparse}. All other argument types \emph{are}
now available directly within the \LaTeXe{} kernel.






\section{A hook management system for \LaTeX{}}

With the fall 2020 release of \LaTeX{} we provide a general hook
management system for the kernel and for packages. This will allow
packages to safely add code to various kernel and package hooks and if
necessary define rules to reorder the code in the hooks to resolve
typical package loading order issues.  This hook system is written in
the L3 programming layer and thus forms the first larger application
within the kernel that makes use of the \LaTeX3 functionality now
available (if we discount \pkg{xparse} which was already available for
a long time as a separate package).

The file \texttt{lthooks.dtx} holds the core management code for hooks
and defines basic hooks for environments (as previously offered by
\pkg{etoolbox}), \texttt{ltshipout.dtx} provides kernel hooks into the
shipout process (making packages like \pkg{atbegshi},
etc., unnecessary) and the file \texttt{ltfilehook.dtx} holds
redefinition for commands like \cs{input} or \cs{usepackage} so that
they offer hooks in a similar fashion to what is provided by the
\pkg{filehook} package.

At the moment the integration is lightweight, overwriting definitions
made earlier during format generation (though this will change after
more thorough testing).  For that reason the documention isn't in its
final form either and you have to read through three different
documents:
\begin{description}
  \item[\texttt{lthooks-doc.pdf}] Core management interface and basic
    hooks for environments provided by the kernel.

  \item[\texttt{ltshipout-doc.pdf}] Hooks accessible while a page is
    being shipped out.

  \item[\texttt{ltfilehook-doc.pdf}] Hooks used when reading a file.
\end{description}
For those who wish to also study the code, replace \texttt{-doc} with
\texttt{-code}, e.g., \texttt{lthooks-code.pdf}. All documents should
be accessible via \texttt{texdoc}, e.g.,
\begin{verbatim}
  texdoc lthooks-doc
\end{verbatim}
should open the core documentation for you.



\section{Other changes to the \LaTeX{} kernel}


\subsection{\cs{symbol} in math mode for large Unicode values}

The \LaTeXe{} kernel defines the command \cs{symbol}, which allows
characters to be typeset by entering their `slot number'. With the
\LuaTeX{} and \XeTeX{} engines, these slot numbers can extend to very
large values to accommodate Unicode characters in the upper Unicode
planes (e.g., bold mathematical capital A is slot number
\texttt{"1D400} in hex or \texttt{119808} in decimal).  The \XeTeX{}
engine did not allow \cs{symbol} in math mode for values above
$2^{16}$, and this limitation has now been lifted.
%
\githubissue{124}


\subsection{Correct Unicode value of \cs{=y} (\=y)}

The Unicode slot for \=y was incorrectly pointing to the slot for
\=Y. This has been corrected.
%
\githubissue{326}

\subsection{Add support for Unicode soft hyphens}

For a long time, the UTF-8 option for \pkg{inputenc} made the Unicode
soft hyphen character (U+00AD) an alias for the \LaTeX\ soft hyphen
\cs{-}. The Unicode engines \XeTeX{} and \LuaTeX{} behaved
different though: They either ignored U+00AD or interpreted it as an
unconditional hyphen. This inconsistency is fixed now and \LaTeX{}
always treats \texttt{U+00AD} as \cs{-}.
%
\githubissue{323}



\subsection{Fix capital accents in Unicode engines}

In Unicode engines the capital accents such as \cs{capitalcedilla},
etc., have been implemented as trival shorthands for the normal
accents (because other than Computer Modern virtually no fonts support
them), but that failed when \pkg{hyperref} got loaded. This has been
corrected.
%
\githubissue{332}



\subsection{Support \pkg{calc} in various kernel commands}

The \cs{hspace}, \cs{vspace}, \cs{addvspace}, \cs{textbackslash} and
other commands simply passed their argument to a \TeX{} primitive to
produce the necessary space. As a result it was impossible to specify
anything other than a simple dimension value in such arguments. This
has been changed, so that now \pkg{calc} syntax is also supported with
these commands.
%
\githubissue{152}

\subsection{Support \eTeX\ length expressions in \texttt{picture} coordinates}

Picture mode coordinates specified with \texttt{(\_,\_)} previously
accepted multiples of \cs{unitlength}. They now also allow \eTeX\ length
expressions (as used by the \cs{glueexpr} primitive although all uses
in \texttt{picture} mode are non stretchy).

So valid uses include \verb|\put(2,2)| as previously,
 but now also uses such as \verb|\put(\textwidth-5cm,0.4\texteight)|.

Note that you can only use expressions with lengths, \verb|\put(1+2,0)| is not
supported.


\subsection{Spaces in filenames of included files}

File names containing spaces lead to unexpected results when used in
the commands \cs{include} and \cs{includeonly}.  This has now been
fixed and the argument to \cs{include} can contain file name
containing spaces. Leading or trailing spaces will be stripped off
but spaces within the file name are kept. The argument to
\cs{includeonly}, which is a comma-separated list of files to process,
can also contain spaces with any leading and trailing spaces stripped
from the individual filenames while the spaces \emph{in} the file
names will remain intact.
%
\githubissue[s]{217 and 218}


\subsection{Avoid extra line in \cs{centering}, \cs{raggedleft} or \cs{raggedright}}

If we aren't justifying paragraphs then a very long word (longer than a
line) could result in an unnecessary extra line in order to prevent a
hyphen in the second-last line of the paragraph. This is now avoided
by setting \cs{finalhyphendemerits} to zero in unjustified settings.
%
\githubissue{274}


\subsection{Set a non-zero \cs{baselineskip} in text scripts}

As \cs{textsuperscript} and \cs{textsubscript} usually contain only a
few characters on a single line the \cs{baselineskip} was set to
zero. However, \pkg{hyperref} uses that value to determine the height
of a link box which consequently came out far too small. This has
been adjusted.
%
\githubissue{249}


\subsection{Spacing issues when using \cs{linethickness}}

In some circumstances the use of \cs{linethickness} introduced a
spurious space that shifted objects in a \texttt{picture} environment
to the right. This has been corrected.
%
\githubissue{274}



\subsection{Better support for the legacy series default interface}

In the initial implementation of \LaTeX's font selection scheme (NFSS)
changes to any default where carried out by redefining some
commands, e.g., \cs{seriesdefault}. In 2019 we introduced various
extensions and with it new methods of customising certain parts of
NFSS, e.g., the recommended way for changing the series default(s) is
now through \cs{DeclareFontSeriesDefault}~\cite{32:ltnews31}. In this
release we improved the support for legacy documents using the old
method to cover additional edge cases.
%
\githubissue[s]{306,315}


\subsection{Support for uncommon font series defaults}

If a font family was set up with fairly unusual font series defaults,
e.g.,
\begin{verbatim}
  \renewcommand\ttdefault{lmvtt}
  \DeclareFontSeriesDefault[tt]{md}{lm}
  \DeclareFontSeriesDefault[tt]{bf}{bm}
\end{verbatim}
then a switch between the main document families, e.g.,
\verb=\ttfamily...\rmfamily= did not always correctly continue
typesetting in medium or bold series if that involved adjusting the
values used by \verb=\mdseries= or \verb=\bfseries=.  This has now
been corrected.
%
\githubissue{291}


\subsection{Checking the current font series context}

Sometimes it is necessary to define commands that act differently when
used in bold context (e.g., inside \cs{textbf}. Now that it is
possible in \LaTeX{} to specify different \enquote{\texttt{bf}}
defaults based for each of the three meta families (\texttt{rm},
\texttt{sf} and \texttt{tt}) via \cs{DeclareFontSeriesDefault}, it is
not any longer easy to answer the question \enquote{am I typesetting in
  a bold context?}. To help with this problem a new command was provided:
\begin{quote}
  \cs{IfFontSeriesContextTF}\Arg{context}\\
  \hspace*{4em} \Arg{true code}\Arg{false code}
\end{quote}
The \meta{context} can be either \texttt{bf} (bold) or \texttt{md}
(medium) and depending on whether or not the current font is
recognized as being selected through \cs{bfseries} or \cs{mdseries}
the \meta{true code} or \meta{false code} is executed.
As an example
\begin{verbatim}
\usepackage{bm}  % (bold math)
\newcommand\vbeta{\IfFontSeriesContextTF{bf}%
                   {\ensuremath{\bm{\beta}}}%
                   {\ensuremath{\beta}}}
\end{verbatim}
This way you can write \cs{vbeta}\texttt{-isotopes} and if used in a
heading it comes out in a bolder version.
%
\githubissue{336}


\subsection{Avoid spurious package option warning}

When a package is loaded with a number of options, say \texttt{X},
\texttt{Y} and \texttt{Z}, and then later another loading attempt was
made with a subset of the options or no options, it was possible that
you got an error message that option \texttt{X} is not known to the
package. This obviously incorrect error was due to some timing issue
where the list of available options got lost prematurely. This has now
been fixed.
%
\githubissue{22}


\subsection{Adjusting \texttt{fleqn}}

In \pkg{amsmath} the \cs{mathindent} parameter used with the
\texttt{fleqn} design is a rubber length paramter allowing for setting
it to a value such as \texttt{1em minus 1em}, i.e., so the the normal
indentation can be reduced in case of very wide math displays.
This is now also supported by the \LaTeX{} standard classes.

In addition a compressible space between formula and equation number
in the \texttt{equation} environment got added when the \texttt{fleqn}
option is used so that a very wide formula doesn't bump into the
equation number.
%
\githubissue{252}


\subsection{Provide \cs{clap}}

\LaTeX{} has inherited \cs{llap} and \cs{rlap} from plain \TeX{}
(zero-sized boxes whose content sticks out to the left or right,
respectively) but there isn't a corresponding \cs{clap} command that
centers the material. This missing command was added by several
addon packages, e.g., \pkg{mathtools}, and has now been added to the
kernel.


\subsection{Fix to legacy math alphabet interface}

When using the \LaTeX{}~2.09 legacy math alphabet interface, e.g.,
\verb=$\sf -1$= instead of \verb=$\mathsf{-1}$=, an extra math Ord atom
was added to the formula in case the math alphabet was used for the first
time. In some cases this math atom would change the spacing, e.g.,
change the unary minus sign into a binary minus in the above example. This
has finally been fixed.
%
\gnatsissue{latex}{3357}



\subsection{Added tests for format, package and class dates}

To implement compatibility code or to ensure that certain features are
available it is helpful and often necessary to check the date of the
format or that of a package or class and execute different code based
on the result. For that \LaTeX\ only had some internal commands
(\cs{@ifpackagelater} and \cs{@ifclasslater}) for testing package or
class names but nothing really for testing the format date. For the
latter one had to resort to some obscure command \cs{@ifl@t@r} that,
given its cryptic name, was clearly never intended for use even in
package or class code.  Furthermore, even the existing interface
commands were defective as they are testing for \enquote{equal or
  later} and not for \enquote{later} as their names indicate.

We have therefore introduced three new CamelCase commands as the
official interface for such tests
\begin{quote}
  \cs{IfFormatAtLeastTF}\Arg{date}\\
  \hspace*{4em} \Arg{true code}\Arg{false code}
\end{quote}
and for package and class tests
\begin{quote}
  \cs{IfClassAtLeastTF}\Arg{class name}\Arg{date}\\
  \hspace*{4em} \Arg{true code}\Arg{false code} \\
  \cs{IfPackageAtLeastTF}\Arg{package name}\Arg{date}\\
  \hspace*{4em} \Arg{true code}\Arg{false code}
\end{quote}
For compatibility reasons the legacy commands remain available, but we
suggest to replace them over time and use the new interfaces in new
code.
%
\githubissue{186}


\subsection{Avoid a problem with \cs{verb}}

If a user typed \verb*=\verb !~! foo= instead of
\verb*=\verb!~! foo= by mistake, then surprisingly the result was
``\verb=!~!=foo'' without any warning or error.
%
What happened was that the
\verb*= = became the argument delimiter due to the rather complex
processing done by \cs{verb} to render verbatim. This now got
fixed and spaces directly following the command \cs{verb} or \cs{verb*}
are ignored as elsewhere.
%
\githubissue{327}


\subsection{Provide a way to copy commands}

With the previous \LaTeXe{} release, several user-level commands were
made robust, so the need for a way to create copies of these commands
(often to redefine them) increased, and the \LaTeXe{} kernel didn't have
a way to do so.  Previously this functionality was provided in part by
Heiko Oberdiek's \pkg{letltxmacro} package, which allows a robust
command \verb=\foo= to be copied to \verb=\bar= with
\verb=\LetLtxMacro\bar\foo=.

From this release onwards, the \LaTeXe{} kernel provides
\cs{NewCommandCopy} (and \verb=\Renew...=, \verb=\Declare...=, and
\verb=\Provide...= variants) which functions almost like
\verb=\LetLtxMacro=.  To the end user, both should work the same way,
and one shouldn't need to worry about the definition of the command:
\cs{NewCommandCopy} should do the hard work.

\cs{NewCommandCopy} knows about the different types of definitions from
the \LaTeXe{} kernel, and also from other packages, such as
\pkg{xparse}'s command declarations like \cs{NewDocumentCommand}, and
\pkg{etoolbox}'s \cs{newrobustcmd}, and it can be extended to cover
further packages.

\githubissue{239}

\subsection{Merge \pkg{l3docstrip} into \pkg{docstrip}}

The file \pkg{l3docstrip.tex} offered a small extension over the
original \pkg{docstrip.tex} file supporting the
\texttt{\%\string<@@=\meta{module}\string>} syntax of \pkg{expl3}.
This has been merged into \pkg{docstrip} so that it can now be
used for both traditional \texttt{.dtx} files and those containing
code written in the L3 programming layer language.
%
\githubissue{337}


\subsection{Support vertical typesetting with \pkg{doc}}

The \texttt{macrocode} environment uses a \texttt{trivlist} internally
and as part of this sets up the \cs{@labels} box to contain some
horizontal skips, but that box is never used. As a result this
generates an issue in some circumstances if the typesetting direction
is vertical. This has now been corrected to support such use cases as
well.
%
\githubissue{344}


\subsection{Record the counter name stepped by \cs{refstepcounter}}

\cs{refstepcounter} now stores the name of the counter in \cs{@currentcounter}.
This allows packages like \pkg{zref} and \pkg{hyperref} to store the name without
having to patch \cs{refstepcounter}.
%
\githubissue{300}


\subsection{Native Lua\TeX\ behaviour for \cs{-}}

\LaTeX\ changes \cs{-} to add a discretionary hyphen even if \cs{hyphenchar}
is set to $-1$. This change is not necessary under Lua\TeX\ because in there
\cs{-} is not affected by \cs{hyphenchar} in the first place. Therefore this
behaviour has been changed to ensure that Lua\TeX's (language specific)
hyphenation characters are respected by \cs{-}.



\subsection{Allow \cs{par} commands inside \cs{typeout}}

\cs{typeout} used to choke when seeing an empty line or a \cs{par}
command in its argument.  However, sometimes it is used to display
arbitrary user input or code (wrapped, for example, in
\cs{unexpanded}) which may contain explicit \cs{par} commands. This is
now allowed.
%
\githubissue{335}

\subsection{Spacing commands moved from \pkg{amsmath} to the kernel}
Originally \LaTeX{} only provided a small set of spacing commands
for use in text and math, some of the commands like \cs{;} were
only supported in math mode. \texttt{amsmath} normalized  and
provided all of them in text and math. This code has now been
moved to the kernel so that it is generally available.
%
\githubissue{303}

\begin{tabular}{lll}
command name(s)              & math   & text\\\hline
\cs{,}  \cs{thinspace}       & $x\,x$ & x\,x\\
\cs{!}  \cs{negthinspace}    & $x\!x$ & x\!x\\
\cs{:} \cs{>} \cs{medspace}  & $x\:x$ & x\:x\\
\cs{negmedspace}             & $x\negmedspace x$ & x\negmedspace x\\
\cs{;} \cs{thickspace}       & $x\;x$ & x\;x\\
\cs{negthickspace}           & $x\negthickspace x$ & x\negthickspace x\\
\end{tabular}



\subsection{Access raw glyphs in \LuaTeX\ without reloading fonts}

\LaTeX's definitions for \cs{textquotesingle}, \cs{textasciigrave}, and
\cs{textquotedbl} for the TU encoding in \LuaTeX\ need special handling to
stop the shaper from replacing these characters with curly quotes.
This used to be done by reloading the current font without the \texttt{tlig}
feature, but that came with multiple disadvantages: It behaves differently
than the corresponding \XeTeX\ code and it is not very efficient.
This code has now been replaced with an implementation which injects a
protected glyph node which is not affected by font shaping.
%
\githubissue{165}


\subsection{Added a fourth empty argument to \cs{contentsline}}

\LaTeX's writes with \cs{addcontentsline} a \cs{contentsline}
command with three arguments to the  toc and similar files.
\pkg{hyperref} redefines \cs{addcontentsline} to write
a fourth argument. The change unifies the number of arguments
by writing an additional empty brace group.



\subsection{Lua\TeX\ callback \texttt{new\_graf} made \texttt{exclusive}}

Corrected an incorrect callback type which caused return values from the
\texttt{new\_graf} callback to be ignored and paragraph indentation to be
suppressed. In the new version, only one \texttt{new\_graf} callback handler
can be active at a time which allows this handler to take full control of
paragraph indentation.
%
\githubissue{188}





\section{Changes to packages in the \pkg{graphics} category}

\subsection{Generate a warning if existing color definition is changed}

If a color is defined twice using \cs{DefineNamedColor}, no
info text \texttt{Redefining color ... in named color model ...} is written
to the log file, because of a typo in the check. This has been corrected.
%
\gnatsissue{graphics}{3635}

\subsection{Specifying viewport in the \pkg{graphics} package}
Specifying a BoundingBox does not really have meaning when including non-EPS graphics in
\pdfTeX\ and \LuaTeX. For some years the \pkg{graphicx} package
\texttt{bb} key has been interpreted (with a warning) as a
\texttt{viewport} key. This feature has been added to the two-argument
form of \verb|\includegraphics| which is mostly used in the
\pkg{graphics} package. \verb|\includegraphics[1,2][3,4]{file}| will
be interpreted in \pdfTeX\ and \LuaTeX\ in the same way as \pkg{graphicx}
\verb|\includegraphics[viewport=1 2 3 4]{file}|.

\subsection{Normalizing \cs{endlinechar}}
If \cs{endlinechar} is set to $-1$ so that ends of lines are ignored
in special contexts, then a low level \TeX\ error would be generated
by code parsing BoundingBox comments. The package now locally sets
\cs{endlinechar} to its standard value while reading files.
%
\githubissue{286}


\section{Changes to packages in the \pkg{tools} category}

\subsection{\pkg{array}: Support stretchable glue in \texttt{w}-columns}

If stretchable glue, e.g., \cs{dotfill}, is used in \env{tabular}
columns made with the \pkg{array} package, it stretches as it would in
normal paragraph text. The one exception was \texttt{w}-columns (but
not \texttt{W}-columns) where it got forced to its nominal width (which
in case if \cs{hfill} or \cs{dotfill} is 0\,pt). This has been
corrected and now \texttt{w}-columns behave like all other column
types in this respect.
%
\githubissue{270}

\subsection{\pkg{array}: Use math mode for \texttt{w} and
  \texttt{W}-cells in \env{array}}

The \texttt{w} and \texttt{W}-columns are LR-columns very similar to
\texttt{l}, \texttt{c} and \texttt{r}. It is therefore natural to
expect their cell content to be typeset in math mode instead of text
mode if they are used in an \env{array} environment.  This has now
been adjusted. Note that this is a breaking change in version v2.5!
If you have used \texttt{w} or \texttt{W}-columns in older documents
either add \texttt{\detokenize{>{$}...<{$}}} for such columns or
remove the \texttt{\$} signs in the cells. Alternatively, you can roll
back to the old version by loading \pkg{array} with
\begin{verbatim}
   \usepackage{array}[=v2.4]
\end{verbatim}
in such documents.
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\githubissue{297}

\subsection{\pkg{array}: Fix for \cs{firsthline} and \cs{lasthline}}

Replacing \cs{hline} with \cs{firsthline} or \cs{lasthline} could lead
in some cases to an increase of the tabular width. This has now been
corrected.
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\githubissue{322}

\subsection{\pkg{varioref}: Support Japanese as a language option}

The package now recognizes \texttt{japanese} as a language option.
The extra complication is that for grammatical reasons \cs{vref},
\cs{Vref}, \cs{vrefrange} and \cs{fullref} need a structure different
from all other languages currently supported. To accommodate for this
\cs{vrefformat}, \cs{Vrefformat}, \cs{vrefrangeformat}, and \cs{fullrefformat}
was added to all languages.
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\githubissue{352}


\subsection{\pkg{xr}: Support for spaces in filenames}

The commannd \cs{externaldocument}, provided by \pkg{xr}, now also
supports filenames with spaces, just like \cs{include} and
\cs{includeonly}.
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\githubissue{223}



\section{Changes to packages in the \pkg{amsmath} category}

\subsection{Placement corrections for two accent commands}

The accent commands \cs{dddot} and \cs{ddddot} (producing triple and
quadruple dot accents) moved the base character vertically in certain
situations if it was a single glyph,
e.g., \verb=$Q \dddot{Q}$=
were not at the same baseline. This has been corrected.
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\githubissue{126}

\subsection{Fixes to \texttt{aligned} and \texttt{gathered}}

The environments \texttt{aligned} and \texttt{gathered} have a
trailing optional argument to specify the vertical position of the
environment with respect to the rest of the line. Allowed values are
\texttt{t}, \texttt{b} and \texttt{c} but the code only tested for
\texttt{b} and \texttt{t} and assumed anything else must be
\texttt{c}. As a result, a formula starting with a bracket group would
get mangled without warning---the group being dropped and interpreted
as a request for centering. After more than 25 years this has now been
corrected. If such a group is found a warning is given and the data is
processed as part of the formula.
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\githubissue{5}

\subsection{Detect unicode engines when setting \cs{std@minus} and \cs{std@equal}}

\pkg{amsmath} now detects the unicode engines and use their extended
commands to define \cs{std@minus} and \cs{std@equal}. This avoids that package like 
\pkg{unicode-math} have to patch the code in the begin document hook to exchange the commands.


\section{Changes to the \pkg{babel} package}

Multilingual typesetting has much evolved in the past years, and
\pkg{babel}, like \LaTeX{} itself, has followed the footsteps of
Unicode and the W3C consortia to produce proper output in many
languages.

Furthermore, the traditional model to define and select languages
(which can be called \enquote{vertical}), based on closed files, which
is still the preferred one in monolingual documents, is being extended
with a new model (which can be called \enquote{horizontal}) based on
\emph{services} provided by \pkg{babel}, which allows to define and
redefine locales with the help of simple \texttt{ini} files based on
key/value pairs.  The \pkg{babel} package provides about 250 of these files, which
have been generated with the help of the Unicode Common Language Data
Repository.

Thanks to the recent advances in \texttt{lualatex} and
\pkg{luaotfload}, \pkg{babel} currently provides \emph{services} for bidi
typesetting, line breaking for South East Asian and CJK scripts,
non-standard hyphenation (like ff to ff-f), alphabetic and additive
counters, automatic selection of fonts and languages based on the
script, etc. This means \pkg{babel} can be used to typeset such a variety of
languages as Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Japanese, Bangla, Amharic,
Greek, and many others.

And since these \texttt{ini} files they are easily parsable, they can
serve as a source for other packages.

For further details take a look at the \pkg{babel} package
documentation~\cite{32:babel}.


\begin{thebibliography}{9}

\fontsize{9.3}{11.3}\selectfont

\bibitem{32:ltnews31} \LaTeX{} Project Team:
  \emph{\LaTeXe{} news 31}.\\
  \url{https://latex-project.org/news/latex2e-news/ltnews31.pdf}

\bibitem{32:site-doc}
  \emph{\LaTeX{} documentation on the \LaTeX{} Project Website}.\\
  \url{https://latex-project.org/help/documentation/}

\bibitem{32:issue-tracker}
  \emph{\LaTeX{} issue tracker}.
  \url{https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/}

\bibitem{32:babel}
  Javier Bezos and Johannes Braams.
  \emph{Babel --- Localization and internationalization}.\\
  \url{https://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel}

\end{thebibliography}




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