XeLaTeX: Polyglossia and Hebrew Calendar (Suspected Type1 Font error)

Question

I tried adding Hebrew date to my document using \today as in the code below.

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Script=Hebrew]{David CLM}

\setdefaultlanguage[calendar=hebrew]{hebrew}
\begin{document}
\today
\end{document}

However, this code doesn't compile with XeLateX. Instead, the process terminates with the following error.

xdvipdfmx:fatal: This font using the "seac" command for accented characters

From searching online it seems to be related to type1 fonts, as xdvipdfmx can't work with them. However, the Hebrew fonts I know are type1 (from Culmus).

Is there any way to circumvent this problem, and display the Hebrew date properly?

Answer 1

I wouldn't try to use type1 fonts with xelatex (at least not for text).

There is here http://culmus.sourceforge.net/taamim/ a Taamey David CLM which is based on David CLM and works fine with xelatex:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Script=Hebrew]{Taamey David CLM}

\setdefaultlanguage[calendar=hebrew]{hebrew}
\begin{document}
\today
\end{document}