How to change the text of 'see' and 'seealso'

Question

I'm Hebrew user and I'm want to change the title of see and see also at the index (output of course) to Hebrew words:

• see = ראו
• see also = ראו גם

I look here:
Change index "see also" and "see" format
but I didn't understand how to do this, can you help me please?

P.S. I'm using LyX if it's matters.

Thank you!!

Answer 1

No idea of Hebrew, so with non-sense words:

This is the LaTeX code generated with LyX (after some cleaning of non-essential parts) to produce this:

\documentclass[english,hebrew]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O}
\usepackage[a6paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{hebrew}
\begin{document}
חחח\index{חחח|see{םםם}} משפטית הספרות אווירונאוטיקה את, שער דת טיפול
עיצוב, ב לשון ובמתן ולחבר רבה. לראות סוציולוגיה אם שער ררר\index{ררר|seealso{םםם}},
\newpage
אחד של ליצירתה ביולוגיה, בה שכל דרכה מיזמי לטיפול. זכר \index{דרכה}דרכה
אל כלים ציור והנדסה, היא \index{בשפה}בשפה בכפוף שימושיים אל. להפוך בקרבת גם קרן.
על בקר תרבות פיסול, את שפות שנורו אתה. שתפו העזרה או עוד, שמו העיר
\newpage
םםם\index{םםם}
\printindex
\end{document}

Note: the above code with right to left text seems that is not correctly displayed in my browser, but it should be OK when pasted to any good LaTeX editor as texworks.

And this is how a index entry with a "see also" should look in LyX:

To produce the above code you in DocumentsSetting...Language select Hebrew and check that Language package is set to default (now that should load the polyglossia package). Then in DocumentsSetting...Fonts check Use non-TeX fonts(via XeTeX/LuaTeX) and use a font with hebrew glyphs as Linux Libertine O.

Then write the text and index entries, using CtrlL to produce the evil red text (ERT) boxes and finally InsertListIndex List.

Ready. CtrlR to check it. If there are problems, export the file or check the Code Preview Pane and compare your code with the above MWE.

Answer 2

The example in your link is much more complicated than you need.

All you need to do is redefine the macros \seename and \alsoname to the text you want.

If you put the following in the preamble to your document, it will change "see" and "see also" to upper case in the index. Replace them with whatever you need to get the Hebrew text strings you want.

\renewcommand*{\seename}{SEE}
\renewcommand*{\alsoname}{SEE ALSO}

(I can't give exact instructions because I don't know how you are compiling the whole document, and I don't know what the format of a Hebrew index looks like using right-to-left text.)