[latex3-commits] [latex3/babel] docs: More ini’s. Expanded Hebrew numerals. (e305f6a)
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Repository : https://github.com/latex3/babel
On branch : docs
Link : https://github.com/latex3/babel/commit/e305f6a08b704a79a32f7d8940241412e6c74252
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commit e305f6a08b704a79a32f7d8940241412e6c74252
Author: Javier <email at localhost>
Date: Sat Aug 12 10:43:16 2023 +0200
More ini’s. Expanded Hebrew numerals.
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e305f6a08b704a79a32f7d8940241412e6c74252
docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.93.md | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.93.md b/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.93.md
index 71c241e..48ade93 100644
--- a/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.93.md
+++ b/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
@@ -44,3 +49,14 @@ contributions, too. A warning will remember they are ‘bare
minumum locales’. The locales added in this release are:
* `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.
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