[latex3-commits] [git/LaTeX3-latex3-babel] docs: Some typos and corrections. (dc8e749)
Javier
email at dante.de
Wed Jun 1 18:06:26 CEST 2022
Repository : https://github.com/latex3/babel
On branch : docs
Link : https://github.com/latex3/babel/commit/dc8e749ffe179baaf2eb99ab2b836beca33b7ebe
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commit dc8e749ffe179baaf2eb99ab2b836beca33b7ebe
Author: Javier <email at localhost>
Date: Wed Jun 1 18:06:26 2022 +0200
Some typos and corrections.
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dc8e749ffe179baaf2eb99ab2b836beca33b7ebe
docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.md | 21 ++++++++++-----------
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diff --git a/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.md b/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.md
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--- a/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.md
+++ b/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.md
@@ -18,19 +18,18 @@ TeX. Now, thanks to the `l3fp` library, they are quite straighforward.
There are coverters for 3 calendars:
-***Hebrew.*** Basically the set of macros written by Rozman in 1991,
+***Hebrew.*** Basically the set of TeX macros written by Rozman in 1991,
with corrections and adaptions by Porrat, Misha, Haran and Lavva.
- This must be eventually replaced by computations with \textsf{l3fp}.
+ This must be eventually replaced by computations with `l3fp`.
***Islamic.*** Two calendar are defined: `islamic-civil` (arithmetical)
- and `islamic-umalqura`. The code for the former has been taken
- from `calendar.js` by John Walker (public domain) The Umm al-Qura
- calendar, used mainly in Saudi Arabia, is based on
- `islamdate_today.js` on `https://webspace.science.uu.nl/` (by Ray
- Stott; free to use if credited). Since the main aim is to provide
- a suitable `\today`, and maybe some close dates, data for
- `islamic-umalqura` just covers Hijri ~1435/~1460 (Gregorian
- ~2014/~2038).
+ and `islamic-umalqura`. The code for the former has been taken from
+ `calendar.js` by John Walker (public domain). The Umm al-Qura
+ calendar, used mainly in Saudi Arabia, is based on
+ [`islamdate_today.js`](https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/islam/addfiles
+ (by R. H. van Gent). Since the main aim is to provide a suitable
+ `\today`, and maybe some close dates, data for `islamic-umalqura`
+ just cover Hijri ~1435/~1460 (Gregorian ~2014/~2038).
***Persian.*** There is an algorithm written in TeX by Jabri,
Abolhassani, Pournader and Esfahbod, created for the first versions
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ There are coverters for 3 calendars:
is the first day of the Jalali year (either March 20 or March 21).
An example is (**Syntax liable to change.**):
-```
+```tex
\babelcalendar[2022-04-01]{islamic-civil}\iyear\imonth\iday
\localedate[calendar=islamic]\iyear\imonth\iday
```
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