Babel-Thai 1.0.0, No More ThaiLaTeX

[Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]

Babel-Thai 1.0.0, No More ThaiLaTeX

Somewhat belated announcement, but better than never. ThaiLaTeX has been
decomposed and pushed into mainstream.

Here is how its components go:

* Emacs support has been dropped, as it's outdated and unmaintained.
See the discussion [1] (in Thai).
[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/thai-linux-foss-devel/3na8Mex8RsM
* Hyphenation patterns have been integrated into hyph-utf8 package.
* Babel definition has been transformed into babel-thai as part of
babel-contrib.

Currently, the source for hyphenation patterns have not been moved to
hyph-utf8 yet. But after TeX Live 2013 is released, there is a plan to
move it there. But babel-thai will still be maintained here in TLWG SVN
and released directly to CTAN.

Therefore, here is also an announcement for babel-thai 1.0.0.

* Changes from ThaiLaTeX 0.5.1

- Drop outdated and unmaintained Emacs support.
- Fix bug when using Thai number in section-less doc classes.
- Limit scope of emergencystretch within Thai language.
- Add thaiindentfirst option to force indenting section's first paragraph.
(Thanks to Pruet Boonma for the contribution.)
- Drop obsolete thswitch.sty.
- Hyphenation patterns are moved to hyph-utf8 project.
- Babel definition now goes to babel-contrib project.

babel-thai continues being maintained at the old ThaiLaTeX SVN. So, you can
checkout the source for babel-thai 1.0.0 here:

$ svn co http://linux.thai.net/svn/software/thailatex/tags/r_1_0_0 \
thailatex-1.0.0

For TeX Live users, you should be able to get babel-thai from the lang-other
component since version 2013 (to be released soon).

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http://linux.thai.net/node/268