Javier Bezos

@jbezos
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Software y conocimiento libre: LaTeX, Wikilengua. naturaleza, música, ciencia, lengua…

Socio de honor de la Unión de Correctores de España y de la Real Sociedad Matemática Española.

Libros: «Tipografía y notaciones científicas» (autor), «The LaTeX companion, 3rd ed» (contributor).

En la FundéuRAE.

#texlatex #ciencia #lengua #tipografía #typography

SITIO PERSONALhttps://www.texnia.com
GITHUBhttps://github.com/jbezos
LINKEDINhttps://es.linkedin.com/in/jbezos
(3/3) [LaTeX #multilingual support (with #babel), 2025]
— Improvements in Kurdish, Greek, Sanskrit, Turkish.
— Julian calendar.
— Option mapdot (mainly for Arabic).
— Start integrating with Tagged PDF (\DocumentMetadata).
— Other minor improvements.
(2/3) [LaTeX #multilingual support (with #babel), 2025]
— New language loader.
— Transforms: Russian GOST 779b transliteration, Dutch diaeresis, German long s, Hebrew justification, improvements in Chinese and Japanese, improved IAST Devanagari transliteration.
— New locales: Old Uyghur, Algerian Arabic, Betawi, Kangri, Makhuwa, Osage, Venetian, Zhuang, Carian, Etruscan, Lycian, Lydian, Old Irish, Old Persian, Sabaean, Ugaritic, Ancient Hebrew.
(1/3)
These are the new features the LaTeX #multilingual support (with #babel) has brought us this 2025. Remember that, unlike some AI chats mistakenly claim, babel provides comprehensive support for #LuaLaTeX and #XeLaTeX, as well as for #Unicode and #OpenType (with fontspec).

Mi regalo para estas navidades 🙂. Las dos primeras páginas de todos los capítulos de mi libro «Tipografía y notaciones científicas» (más los índices).

https://www.texnia.com/archive/tipografia-notaciones-cientificas.pdf

#Tipografía #Ortotipografía #Corrección #Edición #Ciencia

Revised and completed the page on language naming with babel, the multilingual framework for latex, lualatex and xelatex. Names are based on modern standards, particularly the Unicode CLDR.
https://latex3.github.io/babel/guides/locale-naming.html

#texlatex #multilingual #localization #lualatex #xelatex

Locale naming

The multilingual framework to localize LaTeX, LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX

babel

And finally, babel 25.14 simplifies how to declare languages. Something like \usepackage[marathi]{babel} is enough, without provide=*. Remember lazy loading is often better for handling secondary languages.

https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-25.14.html

#texlatex #luatex #xetex #multilingual #babel #typesetting

What’s new in babel 25.14

The multilingual framework to localize LaTeX, LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX

babel

Great news for presentations: ltx-talk is on its way to #CTAN

See Joseph Wright's blog post for more information:

https://www.texdev.net/2025/07/12/ltx-talk-a-new-class-for-presentations

#TexLatex

ltx-talk: A new class for presentations

I’ve just sent the first (v0.1.0) release of ltx-talk to CTAN. This is a new tagging-aware class which works similarly to beamer. I’ve talked before about the need to write a class from scratch for tagged presentations, so this should be no real surprise.

Some TeX Developments

FontForge now supports HarfBuzz-based font preview: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5522

Special thanks to Khaled Hosny @khaled for kind and thorough code review!

#FontForge #HarfBuzz #FOSS #opensource #typography

INDIC orthography notes sections on vowels, consonants, encoding choices, and shaping have been largely rewritten for Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Kashmiri (deva), Tamil, Bengali, Odia, Punjabi, Telugu, and Sinhala.

https://r12a.github.io/scripts/index.html#scriptnotes

Most term lists for these orthographies have also seen a significant increase in the number of terms and transcriptions.

r12a >> scripts

Landing page for basic writing systems materials.

🆕 pandoc release 3.6.3! This is a bugfix release, but it comes with minor behavior changes:

• The way wikilinks are represented internally changed (marked via a "wikilinks" class instead of a title attribute).
• Babel support in the LaTeX writer changed in a way that should better support most European languages. Users of custom LaTeX templates may need to revise those.

Please see the changelog for more info.

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.6.3

#pandoc #release #texlatex #wikilink

Release pandoc 3.6.3 · jgm/pandoc

Click to expand changelog Track wikilinks with a class instead of a title (Evan Silberman). Previously wikilinks were distinguished by giving them the title wikilink. Now that we have link attrib...

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