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Russian language module for Babel, v1.3j
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Besides the usual bug fixes, some of the changes in this version
include coverage of makeatletter and makeatother, @startsection,
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aisebox,
onecolumn and wocolumn, and many more.
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ctex
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Summary description: Expandable operations on long numbers
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The macros of xintbinhex.sty have been revisited again. Their speed
and the sizes of the maximal allowable inputs have been increased.
As I have little internet time during August, I decided not to
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Summary description: Letters and faxes in French
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Transfert de la forge GNA! à la forge Puszcza, suite à la fermeture de GNA!
Nommage des fichiers instituts en lettre-<institut>.cfg au lieu de
<institut>.ins.
Séparation des définitions par langue en fichiers .ldf.
Amélioration interaction avec paquetage french, mlp, babel, et polyglossia.
Correction bogue #24025 (http://gna.org/bugs/?24025), c'est à dire
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oPlotSymbl
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Announcement for version 1.3 2017-08-03 :
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