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@hambier And even without explicit markup. For example (there are several ways): https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/762419/create-a-simple-emoji-language-for-babel/

Create a simple emoji language for babel

I have my doubts about the wisdom of this… But with LuaLaTeX, babel is really great at switching between fonts and languages automatically without mark up. And the settings for the language can by

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Javier Bezos Dec 22

(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.

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Javier Bezos Dec 22

(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.

Javier Bezos Dec 22

(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).

Javier Bezos Dec 19

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

Javier Bezos Nov 11, 2025

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

Javier Bezos Oct 26, 2025

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

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Javier Bezos Jul 12, 2025

samcarter Jul 12, 2025

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

Javier Bezos Jul 4, 2025

Max Iorsh Jul 3, 2025

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

Javier Bezos Apr 27, 2025

r12a Apr 26, 2025

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.

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