Single hebrew word in english paragraph (babel/pdflatex)

Question

How to include a single hebrew word in an english paragraph using babel and pdflatex? I don't want a new paragraph or start from the right when switching to hebrew. If possible, I would like to continue using pdflatex and babel.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[hebrew,english]{babel}


\begin{document}

hello world גופן ברירת מחדל hello again

\end{document}

Is there any hack/solution? Thank you very much.

Answer 1

In theory, it’s possible to get something like your set-up to work. In practice, even the last maintainer of that package says to switch to XeTeX and polyglossia.

In that package, the command is \texthebrew. Example:

\documentclass[varwidth=10cm, preview]{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}

\setdefaultlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{hebrew}

%\defaultfontfeatures{ Scale=MatchUppercase, Ligatures = TeX }

\newfontfamily\hebrewfont{Frank Ruehl CLM}
\newfontfamily\hebrewfontsf{Simple CLM}
\newfontfamily\hebrewfonttt{Miriam Mono CLM}

\begin{document}
hello world \texthebrew{גופן ברירת מחדל} hello again
\end{document}

It is also possible to get Hebrew to work with babel by loading \babelprovide[import]{hebrew} and then a command such as \babelfont[hebrew]{rm}{Frank Ruehl CLM}. If some package you need is incompatible with polyglossia, that might work better for you.