[latex3-commits] [git/LaTeX3-latex3-babel] docs: Minor fixes. (81aadc9)
Javier
email at dante.de
Tue Jan 24 16:15:08 CET 2023
Repository : https://github.com/latex3/babel
On branch : docs
Link : https://github.com/latex3/babel/commit/81aadc93b96df8d96727954193e3c5d1ae5d4bae
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commit 81aadc93b96df8d96727954193e3c5d1ae5d4bae
Author: Javier <email at localhost>
Date: Tue Jan 24 16:15:08 2023 +0100
Minor fixes.
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81aadc93b96df8d96727954193e3c5d1ae5d4bae
docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.85.md | 27 ++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.85.md b/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.85.md
index 00ccb6d..4f16e9b 100644
--- a/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.85.md
+++ b/docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.85.md
@@ -4,24 +4,25 @@
## Separators in `layout`
-For technical reasons, spaces couldn’t be used as separators in the
+For technical reasons, spaces couldn’t be used formerly as separators in the
list of values passed to `layout`, and therefore `babel` replaced them
with dots. This restriction has been lifted recently in the
LaTeX kernel, and therefore spaces are fine and the recommended syntax. So, now
```tex
\usepackage[arabic, provide=*, bidi=basic, layout=captions lists]{babel}
```
-is preferred to
+is to be preferred to
```tex
-\usepackage[arabic, provide=*,bidi=basic, layout=captions.lists]{babel}
+\usepackage[arabic, provide=*, bidi=basic, layout=captions.lists]{babel}
```
## Enabling and disabling transforms
A higher level interface to enable y disable transforms has been
-devised (see the lower level here), based on the transform label.
-There are now two macros for this purpose, as shown in the following
-example:
+devised (see the lower level
+[here](https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.67.html#turning-on-and-off-transforms),
+based on the transform label. There are now two macros for this
+purpose, as shown in the following example:
```tex
\documentclass{article}
@@ -42,18 +43,18 @@ They are applied to the current locale.
## Font-dependent transforms
Sometimes, a transform doesn’t work well in all fonts. For example, the
-rules for Arabic kashida can differ depending on the font design.
+rules for Arabic *kashida* can differ depending on the font design.
Besides a label, a list of fonts can be provided with a new key
`fonts=` as shown:
```tex
\babelprehyphenation[label=transform.name, fonts=rm sf]{..}{..}
```
-Transforms are enabled or disabled with font selectors. Tags can
-adopt two forms: a family, such as `rm` or `tt`, or the set
-family/series/shape. If a font matches one of these conditions, the
-transform is enabled. The second tag in `rm rm/n/it` is redundant.
-There are no wildcards; so, for italics you may want to write something
-like `sf/m/it sf/b/it`.
+Transforms are enabled or disabled with font selectors. Tags can adopt
+two forms: a family, such as `rm` or `tt`, or the set
+family/series/shape. If a font matches any of these conditions, the
+transform is enabled (which means he second tag in `rm rm/n/it` is
+redundant). There are no wildcards; so, for italics you may want to
+write something like `sf/m/it sf/b/it`.
Transforms set for specific fonts (at least once in any language) are
always reset with a font selector. Currently they cannot be enabled or
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