[latex3-commits] [git/LaTeX3-latex3-babel] docs: 3.76. (5662194)
Javier
email at dante.de
Mon Jun 6 16:30:30 CEST 2022
Repository : https://github.com/latex3/babel
On branch : docs
Link : https://github.com/latex3/babel/commit/56621941c128bfc5c7821774960fbcc802717ee5
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commit 56621941c128bfc5c7821774960fbcc802717ee5
Author: Javier <email at localhost>
Date: Mon Jun 6 16:30:30 2022 +0200
3.76.
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56621941c128bfc5c7821774960fbcc802717ee5
docs/_includes/menu.html | 2 +-
docs/guides/locale-naming.md | 9 +++++----
docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.md | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/_includes/menu.html b/docs/_includes/menu.html
index d89b40b..0413a3d 100644
--- a/docs/_includes/menu.html
+++ b/docs/_includes/menu.html
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
<!-- -->
<li><a href="#">News</a>
<ul>
- <li><a href="https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.html">3.76 (dev)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.html">3.76</a></li>
<li><a href="https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.75.html">3.75</a></li>
<li><a href="https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.74.html">3.74</a></li>
<li><a href="https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.73.html">3.73</a></li>
diff --git a/docs/guides/locale-naming.md b/docs/guides/locale-naming.md
index 543dfab..cc32b72 100644
--- a/docs/guides/locale-naming.md
+++ b/docs/guides/locale-naming.md
@@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ conventions are used.
Languages, and therefore the corresponding files, are named with the
English name, lowercased and without spaces: `northernkurdish`.
Diacritics and non-letters are just removed (`lu` for “Lü”, `kinaraya`
-for “Kinaray-a”). Other fields, like script and region, are separated
-with hyphens: `serbian-latin`, `spanish-mexico`.
+for “Kinaray-a”, `bosniaherzegovina` for “Bosnia & Herzegovina”). Other
+fields, like script and region, are separated with hyphens:
+`serbian-latin`, `spanish-mexico`. Some regions may have long names
+(eg, `bosniaherzegovina`), so, for convenience, the corresponding code
+is also allowed (`ba`, in this case).
They are taken from the CLDR. Wherever the CLDR doesn’t provide a name
(eg, “Medieval Latin”), the pattern followed in practice for other
@@ -25,5 +28,3 @@ for about 500 locales already available.
A few locales with a region or a script have in the CLDR a more precise
name. For example, `ro-MD` is “Moldavian”. They will be normalized in
`babel` in the next few releases.
\ No newline at end of file
-
-
diff --git a/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.md b/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.md
index 0a94901..375e4c6 100644
--- a/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.md
+++ b/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.76.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# What's new in babel 3.76
-*(Draft, under development.)*
+2022-06-06
## Calendars
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ TeX. Now, thanks to the `l3fp` library, they are quite straightforward.
There are converters for 3 calendars:
-***Hebrew.*** Basically the set of TeX macros written by Rozman in 1991,
+**Hebrew.** Basically the set of TeX macros written by Rozman in 1991,
with corrections and adaptations by Porrat, Misha, Haran and Lavva.
This must be eventually replaced by computations with `l3fp`.
-***Islamic.*** Two calendar are defined: `islamic-civil` (arithmetical)
+**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
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ There are converters for 3 calendars:
adjusted with `+`, `-` after the name (and `++`, `--` in the Civil
calendar), so that, for example, with `islamic-civil+` a day is added.
-***Persian.*** There is an algorithm written in TeX by Jabri,
+**Persian.** There is an algorithm written in TeX by Jabri,
Abolhassani, Pournader and Esfahbod, created for the first versions
of the FarsiTeX system (no longer available), but the original
license is GPL, so its use with LPPL is problematic. The code here
@@ -42,15 +42,30 @@ There are converters for 3 calendars:
2013-2050 have been pre-calculated and stored. Actually, all we need
is the first day of the Jalali year (either March 20 or March 21).
-An example is (**Syntax liable to change.**):
+An example is:
```tex
-\babelcalendar[2022-04-01]{islamic-civil}\iyear\imonth\iday
-\localedate[calendar=islamic]\iyear\imonth\iday
+\babelcalendar[2020-04-01]{islamic-civil}{\iyear}{\imonth}{\iday}
+\localedate[calendar=islamic]{\iyear}{\imonth}{\iday}
```
Without the optional argument the current date is used.
-Of course new tools will be added to configure the locales when they
-are loaded.
+Of course new tools will be devised to configure the locales when they
+are loaded, to set the default `\today`.
+
+## Locales
+
+* There are 6 new territory locales for Arabic: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan,
+ Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, and Tunisia. The corresponding tags
+ are `ar-EG`, `ar-IQ`, `ar-JO`, `ar-LB`, `ar-PS` and `ar-TN`, and
+ their
+ [names](https://latex3.github.io/babel/guides/locale-naming.html).
+ are `arabic-egypt`, `arabic-iraq`, `arabic-jordan`, `arabic-lebanon`,
+ `arabic-palestinianterritories`, and `arabic-tunisia`.
+
+* Moldavian, `ro-MD`, has been added.
+
+* There are also some updates and cleanup in English and French.
+
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