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What is the most appropriate way to configure biblatex for use with an unsupported language?

From time to time, I need to typeset Welsh. Sometimes, I need to typeset citations and bibliographies in Welsh. I think that last time I did this, I may still have been using BibTeX although I am ...
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Why do I get different alignment when using \selectlanguage in the second coffin rather than \foreignlanguage (TL 2017)?

Why do I get the different alignment in the following example when I use \selectlanguage, as opposed to using \foreignlanguage? There was a spacing issue due to a Babel bug in TeX Live 2016. However, ...
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Why does \babelensure change the alignment of section headings and how can I prevent it?

Consider the following MWE: \documentclass[welsh,british]{article} \usepackage{babel} \newcommand{\cymraeg}[1]{{\selectlanguage{welsh}#1}} \newcommand{\welsh}[1]{\foreignlanguage{welsh}{#1}} \...
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How can I eliminate spurious spacing using datetime with a modified .def?

I am trying to construct a corrected version of dt-welsh.def for use with the datetime package. In part, this is because my existing set up depends on datetime and, in part, it is because datetime2 is ...
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datetime causes incorrect date format even when babel is loaded first

According to the package manual, datetime supports language-sensitive date formats provided that babel is loaded first. The example on page 2 is: \usepackage[francais]{babel} \usepackage{datetime} ...
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How can I change the order of an alphabetic enumeration?

For instance, in Welsh the alphabet starts a, b, c, ch, d, dd, etc. Is there a way to automatically alter the ordering of lists to match this?