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The babel system for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX
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Documentation bug: wrong macro names in section 3.1. #210

Closed gmilde closed 1 year ago

gmilde commented 1 year ago

In the section 3.1 "Guidelines for contributed languages", the suggestion to use \bbl@save and \bbl@savevariable is misleading, as these functions don't exist. The most likely explanation is a mix up with the confusingly close named \babel@save and \babel@savevariable. Patch:

--- babel.dtx~  2022-12-16 09:23:14.948972649 +0100
+++ babel.dtx   2022-12-16 09:23:31.659677473 +0100
@@ -4421,8 +4421,8 @@
   also use the new tools for encoded strings, described below.
 \item Avoid adding things to |\noextras|\m{lang} except for umlauthigh
   and friends, |\bbl@deactivate|, |\bbl@(non)frenchspacing|, and
-  language-specific macros. Use always, if possible, |\bbl@save| and
-  |\bbl@savevariable| (except if you still want to have access to the
+  language-specific macros. Use always, if possible, |\babel@save| and
+  |\babel@savevariable| (except if you still want to have access to the
   previous value). Do not reset a macro or a setting to a hardcoded
   value. Never. Instead save its value in |\extras|\m{lang}.
 \item Do not switch scripts. If you want to make sure a set of glyphs