The package manages culturally-determined typographical (and other) rules, and hyphenation patterns for a wide range of languages. A document may select a single language to be supported, or it may select several, in which case the document may switch from one language to another in a variety of ways. Babel uses contributed configuration files that provide the detail of what has to be done for each language. Users of XeTeX are advised to use the polyglossia package rather than Babel.

This package enables the user to generate multilingual bibliographies in cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: each citation may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can be typeset in a language chosen by the user. In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography of the bibliographies.

The package provides support for typesetting Thai text within the Babel system.

This is the Babel style for Malay.

The package provides the language definition file for Welsh.

The package provides the language definition file for support of Irish Gaelic in Babel. The principal content is translations to Irish of standard LaTeX names.

The package provides the language definition file for support of Norwegian in Babel. Some shortcuts are defined, as well as translations to Norsk of standard LaTeX names.

This package provides the language definition file for support of Dutch in babel. It provides all the necessary macros, definitions and settings to typeset Dutch documents.

This package provides the language definition file for support of Czech in babel. Some shortcuts are defined, as well as translations to Czech of standard LaTeX names.

The file provides modes for monotonic (single-diacritic) and polytonic (multiple-diacritic) modes of writing. Provision is made for Greek function names in mathematics, and for classical-era symbols.

The Babel-latin package provides the Babel languages latin, classiclatin, medievallatin, and ecclesiasticlatin. It also defines several useful shorthands as well as some modifiers for typographical fine-tuning.

The package provides the language definition file for support of North Sami in Babel. Several Sami dialects/languages are spoken in Finland, Norway, Sweden and on the Kola Peninsula of Russia. Not all use the same alphabet, and no attempt is made to support any other than North Sami here. Some shortcuts are defined, as well as translations to Norsk of standard LaTeX names.

The package establishes Basque conventions in a document.

The package establishes French conventions in a document (or a subset of the conventions, if French is not the main language of the document).

The package provides the language definition file for support of Slovak in Babel, including Slovak variants of LaTeX built-in-names. Shortcuts are also defined.

Breton (being, principally, a spoken language) does not have typographic rules of its own; this package provides an appropriate selection of French and British typographic rules.

This package provides the language definition file for support of Danish in babel. It provides all the necessary macros, definitions and settings to typeset Danish documents.

This package provides the language definition file for support of Polish in babel. Some shortcuts are defined, as well as translations to Polish of standard LaTeX names.

This bundle is an extension to the babel package for multilingual typesetting. It provides all the necessary macros, definitions and settings to typeset German documents. The bundle includes support for the traditional and reformed German orthography as well as for the Austrian and Swiss varieties of German.

The package provides the language definition file for support of Hebrew in babel. Macros to control the use of text direction control of TeX--XeT and e-TeX are provided (and may be used elsewhere). Some shortcuts are defined, as well as translations to Hebrew of standard LaTeX names.

The package provides language definitions for use in Babel.

The package provides the language definition file for Swedish.

The package provides support, within Babel, of the Turkish language.

This package provides Occitan language description file for Babel, with usage instructions.