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The babel-german bundle

German language support for the babel multilingual package

Copyright 1989--2026 Johannes L. Braams
                     Bernd Raichle
                     Walter Schmidt,
                     Jürgen Spitzmüller

Current Maintainer: Jürgen Spitzmüller
E-mail: juergen (at) spitzmueller (dot) org

Please report bugs or requests at
https://codeberg.org/jspitz/babel-german/issues

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

This bundle is an extension to the babel package for multilingual
typesetting. It provides all 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 (standard) varieties of German.


== CONTENTS ==

The bundle consists of the following files:

* babel-german.ins (installation file to unpack the language definition files)
* babel-german.dtx (packed language definition files and documentation)
* babel-german.pdf: unpacked documentation
* README (this file)


== INSTALLATION ==

If the latest version of this package is not included in your LaTeX
distribution, do the following:

* issue "latex babel-german.ins" to unpack the core definition file (*.def)
  and the language definition files (*.ldf).
* copy the files (babel-german.def, austrian.ldf, german.ldf, germanb.ldf,
  german-at.ldf, german-ch.ldf, german-de.ldf, german-at-1901.ldf,
  german-ch-1901.ldf, german-de-1901.ldf, german-austria.ldf, german-germany.ldf,
  german-switzerland.ldf, german-austria-1901.ldf, german-germany-1901.ldf,
  german-switzerland-1901.ldf, naustrian.ldf, ngerman.ldf, ngermanb.ldf,
  nswissgerman.ldf and swissgerman.ldf) to a location where TeX can find them
  (default location: $TEXMF/tex/generic/babel-german/)

To re-generate the manual, issue
* pdflatex babel-german.dtx
* makeindex -s gglo.ist -o babel-german.gls babel-german.glo
* pdflatex babel-german.dtx
* pdflatex babel-german.dtx


== DOCUMENTATION ==

See the included manual for usage instructions.


== CHANGES ==

See the included manual, section "Change History".