{hebrew} is about authoring and compiling TeX documents with Hebrew (and/or Yiddish) language content.
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Coloring combining characters without changing color of a base character
Problem
I am trying to find out is there a good way to paint combining characters without changing the color of the base character they are combined with. My actual problem case is to make some ...
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IDE / Best known method for writing Hebrew documents with LaTeX
I usually use LyX to prepare lecture notes, course summaries, etc.
The reason I use LyX and not LaTex directly is twofold -
I usually need to type in real time - summing a lecture. I think for this ...
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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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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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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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Writing Biblical Hebrew texts with different coloring for consonants, vowel and accent signs
I have got the following problem: I am using Biblical Hebrew texts written in XeTeX but I would like to color consonants as well as vowel and accent signs differently. I have read Coloring combining ...
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What's a simple way to typeset a small amount of Hebrew content using TeX?
You'll have to forgive me, I'm completely new to TeX and know basically nothing about it. What I'm looking to do is to create vowelized and unvoweled Hebrew content to be used in HTML5.
Artscroll, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Using Hebrew in TexWorks
I'd like to write proofs in Hebrew with TeXWorks on Ubuntu 10.4. I'm completely new to LaTeX ... I have Hebrew support installed, but I'm not sure how to proceed regarding writing Hebrew mixed with ...
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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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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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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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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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Using \texttt with polyglossia Hebrew.
Here is a minimal example, which shows that \texttt fails in the said circumstances. I tried reading fontspec documentation, but was overwhelmed by the quantity of the material, and the fix I tried ...
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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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how to typeset RTL document with two columns flush AND two-column footnotes
I'm working on a set of documents in Hebrew. My general workflow is I type reStructuredText, run it through rst2xetex and then typeset with XeLaTeX. What I can't figure out how to do is create a ...
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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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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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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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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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Font problems; Hebrew with KOMA document classes; error message
I am using XeLaTeX for writing texts in Hebrew. Now I have been trying to use the KOMA document classes. After applying a few changes (like changing the font used for chapter, section, ... headlines ...
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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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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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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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`backgroundcolor` in `lstset` does not work
When I use the backgroundcolor option in lstset, all I get is a colored line above the listing:
\lstset{%
language=Matlab,
backgroundcolor=\color{blue}
}
and in the document:
...
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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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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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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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votes
1answer
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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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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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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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Spaces between Hebrew letters
I am writing in Hebrew, but my output doesn't look so good because the spaces between thew Hebrew words are too big. They are somehow bigger than usual, and also the font itself, just doesn't look ...
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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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Changing Hebrew fonts with cjhebrew?
I'm using the cjhebrew package. How can I change the Hebrew font used while still keeping a 12pt Times English font? According to http://sites.huji.ac.il/tex/newlatex_usage.txt, there are many Hebrew ...
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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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Hebrew numerals
There appears to be three different numbering commands in the polyglossia package. Which one is the most correct to use?
I can understand the argument for the \Hebrewnumeralfinal one since it seems ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
