Spanish

The new style file for babel, released officialy as part ofrelease 3.7, provides lots of new features to allow a true Spanishlook and feel regarding typography, following mainly thebooks on the subject by José Martínez de Sousa.Thus, you will have, amongst others:

• Translations following the International TEXconventions, as well as date (with both "de" and "del"variants before the year).
• Shorthands like << and >> (for guillemets), non breakabledashes, raised ¿ and ¡ (for all uppercase texts),etc.
• Dots followed by digits replaced by decimal commas.
• Spanish ordinals and abbreviations, with thepreceptive dot included.
• Accented functions: lím, máx, etc.
• In case spanish is the main language, the layoutis adjusted: enumerate, itemize, lists with ñ, footnoteswith asteriscs, lowercase roman with small caps, etc.

More about the decisions taken, in Spanish, on:

• Decisiones en spanish para babel.

New. Version 5.0 (released 2007-02-21) extends its capabilitiesfurther and makes it a lot more customizable and easier to use.This is the first major revision since it was released in 1997(by then named spanishb).

Free downloads
Note. The package comes in two flavours - as dtx/ins installer andas TDS files. The latter contains two files (spanish.ldf andromanidx.sty) which replaces spanish.ldf and romanidx.tex (noteromanidx has changed its extensión) under the babel directory(spanish.sty does not change at all and esbst will be distributed as aseparate package, as strictly is not part of babel), but note youstill need the dtx file if you want to typeset the reference (which isavailable as PDF file as well).

Nota. El paquete viene en dos variantes: como dtx/ins o comoarchivos TDS. El último contiene dos archivos (spanish.ldf andromanidx.sty) que reemplazan spanish.ldf and romanidx.tex (obsérveseel cambio de extensión de romanidx) en el directorio de babel(spanish.sty no cambia en absoluto y esbst se distribuirá como unpaquete separado, pues no es estrictamente parte de babel), pero hayque señalar que se necesita el dtx si se quiere componer la referencia(que también está disponible como PDF).

• spanish-dtx.zip Spanish 5.0a(dtx/ins, ZIP, 32k).
• spanish-tds.zip Spanish 5.0a(TDS, ZIP, 10k).
• spanish.pdf. Reference, inSpanish (PDF, 190k).
• spanish-full.pdf. Full reference, with tips and examples, in Spanish (not yetavailable).
• tipografia.pdf. Tipografíaespañola con TeX, conference at EGUTH 1999, Madrid, in Spanish (PDF,53k).

Bugs and know problems
El contenido de label en enumitem no admite ordenes frágiles. Perospanish 4 añade una: \es@listquot. Está corregido en laversión 5.0, pero una solución para la 4 es añadir en el preámbulo trascargar spanish:

\makeatletter\let\savees@listquot\es@listquot\def\es@listquot{\protect\savees@listquot}\makeatletter

Por un problema en dcolumn (véase LaTeX bug report tools/3759 (dcolumn conflict with icomma package),el punto decimal puede fallar en ese paquete. Una soluciónrápida es:

\usepackage[spanish]{babel}\decimalpoint\usepackage{dcolumn}\newcolumntype{.}{D{.}{\esperiod}{-1}}\makeatletter\addto\shorthandsspanish{\let\esperiod\es@period@code}\makeatother\begin{document}etc.