Belarusian language module for Babel, v1.5

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c or later. See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

The package provides support for use of Babel in documents written in Belarusian (in both official and ‘classic’ forms). The support is adapted for use both under legacy TEX engines, and under X∃TEX and LuaTEX.

Based on Russian language module v1.3h by Igor A. Kotelnikov and Belarusian language module v1.1l by Aleksey Novodvorsky aen@logic.ru.

The current maintainer is Andrej Shadura andrew@shadura.me.

Installation

• unpack babel-belarusian.zip
• run xelatex belarusian.dtx (recommended) or pdflatex belarusian.dtx; run tex belarusian.dtx or tex belarusian.ins, if you don’t need documentation
• move "belarusian.ldf" to ${texmf}/tex/generic/babel/contrib/
• move "belarusian.pdf" and README to ${texmf}/doc/latex/belarusian-babel/
• update filename base (see documentation for your TeX system)

Usage

Belarusian language definition file can be used both with legacy 8-bit engines (such as latex or pdflatex) and Unicode compilers (xelatex or lualatex). The Unicode engines can be ran either in Unicode mode or 8-bit compatibility mode, which emulates the legacy engines. The two modes differ by a set of packages loaded in the preamble of a source TeX file. It is important to keep recommended order of the packages loaded, especially when running Unicode engines in a compatibility 8-bit mode.

In the examples below, it is assumed that a source file has utf8 input encoding.

8-bit mode

PDFLATeX, LaTeX

\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,belarusian]{babel}

LuaLaTeX

\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[lutf8]{luainputenc}
\usepackage[english,belarusian]{babel}

XeLaTeX

\XeTeXinputencoding "bytes"
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english,belarusian]{babel}

Unicode mode, LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX

\usepackage{fontspec}
    \defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures={TeX}}
    \setmainfont{CMU Serif}
    \setsansfont{CMU Sans Serif}
    \setmonofont{CMU Typewriter Text}
\usepackage[english,belarusian]{babel}

Instead of the Computer Modern Unicode (CMU) fonts loaded in this example, you may use any True Type or Open Type fonts installed on your computer.

Using "classic" (Taraškievič) spelling

\usepackage[english,belarusian]{babel}
\languageattribute{belarusian}{classic}

or

\usepackage[english,belarusian.classic]{babel}

or

\usepackage[english,belarusian]{babel}
\languageattribute{belarusian}{tarask}

or

\usepackage[english,belarusian.tarask]{babel}

Documentation

See belarusian.pdf for more information.

Known problems

Before switching from a legacy 8-bit engine (tex, pdftex) to an Unicode engine (xetex, luatex) and vise versa delete all .aux, .toc, .lot, .lof files as they might have stored incompatible internal encodings.

Changes

2018-10-09 version 1.5

• Replace \cyrmath with \textnormal. Patch by Ivan Kokan.

2018-08-25 version 1.4

• Rename belarusianb.dtx to belarusian.dtx since the patch to Babel has been never submitted.
• Use textcomp package in the documentation.
• Formatting fixes.
• Convert the README to Markdown.
• Rename the Unicode detection macro to fix conflicts with babel-russian.

2016-04-07 version 1.3h

• Initial version

Original source: russianb.dtx

2016-02-18 v1.3h Russian support from the babel system.