{hebrew} is about authoring and compiling TeX documents with Hebrew (and/or Yiddish) language content.
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English-Hebrew bilingual book layout
How would one go about setting, say, a bilingual novel with the English translation on the left side of the book and the original Hebrew text on the right side of the book so that the two meet in the ...
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How do I add Hebrew support to TeXLive on Windows (with pdfTeX+babel)?
I just downloaded & installed TeXLive 2012 on my Windows 7 box, including Hebrew language support. I then tried to process the following document:
\documentclass{article}
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Numbering in TOC does not work with Hebrew numerals
I have noticed the following odd behavior: With Hebrew as main language and Arabic numerals the numbering in the table of contents is just as it should be, but with Hebrew letters as numerals it does ...
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Error (Incomplete \iffalse) with enumerate and Hebrew [closed]
I have got the following problem: Trying to have an enumerate environment in an all Hebrew document (i.e. main document language is Hebrew) causes Incomplete \iffalse. The same with with German as ...
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How can I search for text with and without diacritics? [closed]
Even though this is not a question which directly connects to TeX I am going to ask it anyway:
Searching in and for text which contains Hebrew with nikkud and taamin (or Arabic with its diacritics) ...
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Lyx and Hebrew - Subsection numbering in the wrong direction [duplicate]
I'm using LaTeX to typeset Hebrew math papers, and just started using LyX for that purpose. I use the KOMA script article class and XeTeX, and everything works great except for one glitch:
The ...
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Tab stops and text direction; Latin and Hebrew/Arabic
Is there a package available which offers the following functionality (or if not, does someone have an idea how to achieve this): I would like to use tab stops but also define the "side" of the tab ...
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How to set up TeX software to begin making existing Greek and Hebrew texts into custom interlinear pdfs?
Starting Point
I have a W32TeX package with latex, pdftex, xetex installed on a win7 box and am interested in getting started creating interlinear Greek-Hebrew (2 line, no English) texts of Biblical ...
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Hebrew spellchecking does not work in LyX
Hi I've scoured the internet for a solution for my spellchecker problem but with no luck.
The problem is that when I write misspelled Hebrew text nothing happens I did follow the guide at their ...
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Some problems using LyX RTL with equations
I'm really new to the whole LyX(2.0.5.1) thing I'm usually using LibreOffice Writer and it's Latex like "formulas".
But I've heard so many good things about LyX, so I've decided to give it a try but ...
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How to do a small box synchronized translation?
I would like to do something similar to the Artscroll Bibles, with a Hebrew text and a small box on the top with a synchronized translation.
In the following picture, the box in question is the upper ...
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Biblatex raggedright bibliography with polyglossia hebrew
The xelatex with biblatex can generate raggedright bibliography by means of
\raggedright\printbibliography
but adding hebrew to polyglossia:
\setotherlanguage{hebrew}
disables this ...
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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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XeTeX and Luatex fail to display correctly biblical hebrew fonts
My question is related to both XeTeX and LuaTeX; both fail to display correctly biblical hebrew fonts.
More precisely, the text is truncated at some point, and the nikud (meaning something like ...
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How to write an article in Hebrew using emacs?
I've gotten AucTeX up and running on my emacs 12.4/Ubuntu 12.10. Now how can i get it to work with Hebrew?
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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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Problem with ConTeXt (MkIV), Hebrew and ligatures
Since I last played with the latest ConTeXt MkIV, there has been introduced this new feature. It now seems to combine Hebrew characters automatically when possible to ligatures. So for example. If I ...
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How to indent only the second line of a paragraph?
I am not an expert in Hebrew typesetting, but the majority of the works I study has the second line of each paragraph indented. Is there a package that would allow me to do this, or will this need to ...
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Space between Hebrew letters larger with MacTeX than with MiKTeX [closed]
I'm writing LaTeX using LyX on Macintosh, and in Hebrew. My problem is that when exporting the document I get bigger spaces between my Hebrew letters than if compiling the same file on a Windows ...
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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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Getting started with Greek and Hebrew in LuaLaTeX
I am typesetting a 17th century English theological document that uses a smattering of Greek and Hebrew. I am using LuaLaTeX with TeXShop on the Mac.
Is LuaLaTeX up to the task? If so what are the ...
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Not able to switch to any other document class than “article”
I'm using LyX with Hebrew and whenever I'm trying to change my document setting to something else than article (i.e. article(AMS)) I can't create a pdf. I'm getting these errors:
Undefined control ...
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How to type in both English and an RTL language in LyX
I wish to write a (math) document in Hebrew, but that will contain some English (and math),
currently the LyX starts a new document in LTR and I do not know how to change the language to Hebrew (I was ...
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Hebrew sections with cjhebrew (and hyprref)
I sometimes write hebrew words in english or german texts. For this I use cjhebrew. It works fine unless I try to write a section or subsection in hebrew.
With
\subsection{\cjRL{kwl}}
I get
aTeX ...
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Hebrew TeXLive on Ubuntu 12.04 missing fonts
The installation is TeXLive on Ubuntu 12.04.
I've been using a variety of source files, some of them extremely simple. I can post if necessary, but thought it might be irrelevant given the seeming ...
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Tables are not numbered using Polyglossia in Hebrew
I have a problem using Polyglossia in Hebrew:
While defining main language as Hebrew, my tables are not numbered in the caption(It appraes as just "Table" (טבלה) instead of "Table 1" (or "טבלה 1").
If ...
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stops become blank squares in cjhebrew
The following code:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{cjhebrew}
\begin{document}
\begin{cjhebrew}
hd .
\end{cjhebrew}
\end{document}
Generates the correct hebrew letters, but the stop ...
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Hebrew LyX reverses parenthesis [duplicate]
I'm trying to write an Hebrew document in LyX, export to LaTeX and then compile with XeTeX. Everything works great (after some minor corrections in the output, mainly removing the \L tags babel ...
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Xetex not running in Hebrew Lyx
I am trying to use Polyglossia package through Lyx. When compiling with XeLaTeX, I get undefined control sequence error and the file won't compile.
Working with Windows 7, Lyx 2.03 and MiKTeX 2.9.
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Rstudio output in Hebrew
(Follow-up to
Making LaTeX documents with Hebrew? (in Sweave + RStudio))
Trying to reproduce the above answer, I followed these instructions without success, under Windows 7.
The best result I got ...
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Installing hebrew (culmus) on Mac using TexLive
I am trying to follow the instructions below in order to install hebrew to work with Latex on a mac (Lion) running TexLive. The script seems to be outdated in so many ways... Could someone help me to ...
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Tabulators like in OpenOffice/LibreOffice
Is there any way to achieve the same result in LaTeX as done with tabulators in other Word Processors?
The difference to tables is that the text is not limited to cells but can flow across there ...
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Bullet points do not appear (in \itemize environment with Hebrew font David CLM)
I am writing Hebrew using the David CLM font (from Culmus). Using this font there are no bullet points in \itemize environments. I do not understand why. It works as it is supposed to work with other ...
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Hebrew vs. German/English translation side-by-side
I am having the following problem: I have Hebrew texts and want to put translations (and other information) right next to it in a nice way. (Previously I used the old Nisus Writer for Mac which for ...
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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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Display and format of section and subsection in RTL (Hebrew)
I have come across a very peculiar problem. The sections and subsections show correctly in my output when the language is set to English. But when I change the language to Hebrew which it needs to be ...
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Can't type Hebrew with polyglossia
My ultimate goal is to create a beamer presentation in Hebrew. While toying with things, I got stuck with an error:
! Package etoolbox Error: Toggle 'Hebrew@RL' undefined.
which is thrown on the ...
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Making LaTeX documents with Hebrew? (in Sweave + RStudio)
I would like to write in Hebrew in an .Rnw file, and use it with RStudio.
Searching around, I found an example for using Hebrew in LaTeX in general:
Numbers, punctuation and parenthesis reversed in ...
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Bi-directional editor for LaTeX
I am new here. I am looking for a bi-directional editor that works with LaTeX system and supports Unicode. I need it in order to write Hebrew, Arabic, etc.
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Numbers, punctuation and parenthesis reversed in RTL
Contrary to my belief and to what's shown here, the above are coming up reversed for me:
I've seen this happen in other places too (enumerations off the top of my head), but these are the most ...
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Footnote separator for wrapped footnote, problems with Hebrew
In a previous question I asked how to format the footnote separator for wrapped footnotes. However, the provided solution unfortunately did not seem to work with my document. Now I have found that ...
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XeTeX hebrew problem with LyX
I am using LyX and trying to write in Hebrew using XeTeX. I get the following error messages:
undefined control sequence
Package polyglossia error
Is this a package I should get manually? I would ...
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'Guttman yad-brush' font
I am familiar and kind of like this font, from (god forgive me) "Microsoft Word" program. It's actually a hebrew font.
An example of the font is at this page
I would like to know if it's possible to ...
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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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Using tabular(*?) with two languages
I wish to have an invisible table (using the tabular or tabular* environments) which should contain two columns - one shall contain sentences in English, and the other - their translations in Hebrew.
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polyglossia and algorithmicx - Missing \endcsname inserted
Trying to compile a simple document using polyglossia with Hebrew as the default language:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\TeXXeTstate=1
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
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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 ...
