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Typesetting a bilingual English-Hebrew book with facing pages in each language
How would one go about setting, say, a bilingual novel with the English translation on the left side of the book binding (the verso) and the original Hebrew text on the right side of the book (the ...
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TeX fails to generate output with Hebrew text: Jerusalem font metric file missing
I have MiKTeX installed on a Windows machine.
I have this simple document, where I'm trying to use Hebrew:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{ucs} % package to add unicode support
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Babel warns of lack of hyphenation patterns for Hebrew
I use TeX Live including the Hebrew package. I've tried to produce a simple TeX file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage [english,hebrew]{babel}
\begin{document}
שלום
\end{document}
but I keep ...
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Babel + Hebrew + aeguill incompatiblility
(Question split off from here.)
If you try to use the aeguill package (which adds some guillemets to the ae fonts) with Babel and Hebrew:
\documentclass{standalone}
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Including Hebrew text in a non-Hebrew document (Babel not working)
I need to introduce one Hebrew word in a document. I have been trying to add an hebrew option in my Babel includepackage command, as in the following code, but it does not work: it triggers a clash ...
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Can't get babel and amsthm to play nice once Hebrew is loaded
I am working in LaTeX, and I am trying to get babel and amsthm to play nice together.
I produced a minimal example (which gives a different error than the full project, but getting this to work could ...
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Babel + Hebrew + lipsum incompatibility
With:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hebrew,english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}
You get:
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
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Dashes and hyphens in Hebrew
I'm trying to use hyphens in a Hebrew document, but they do not appear in the resulting file. I've created this example to test the error. It seems only the unicode en-dash letter renders correctly ...
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Right-to-left text in LaTeX - reversed numbers and parentheses
Finally I got my Hebrew working on LaTeX.
Everything's working great except for two issues - numbers and parentheses. Numbers are written the other way around (one hundred would be written 001), and ...
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2answers
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How do I get babel to use the same typeface for regular and bold Hebrew text?
According to the babel package documentation (section 64), the default font used for Hebrew is Jerusalem which is a Metafont. Bold text is set in Dead Sea.
This results in weird looking text, such as ...
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hyperref links break with babel + hebrew (or right-to-left language)
It's time for Eyal's babel + Hebrew incompatibility of the week. And this time: hyperref... :-(
Basically, you can't get links with right-to-left text. It's about the direction rather than the ...
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2answers
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algorithmicx conflicts with babel with Hebrew
When trying to create any document with box algorithmicx and algorithmicx:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hebrew,english]{babel}
\usepackage{algorithmicx}
\begin{document}
Hello, world.
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algorithmic + babel with Hebrew conflict: Numbering missing
If I use algorithmic with babel, having both Hebrew and English, the line numbers go missing. Using MikTeX 2.9.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hebrew,english]{babel}
\usepackage{algorithm}
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