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I am new to LaTeX and I just strated to use Polyglossia to write Hebrew documents. When I try to write text in italic, it just produces the same text style. For example

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{hebrew}
\setmainfont{David}

\begin{document}
שלום עולם

\textit{שלום עולם}
\end{document}

Produces:

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How can I define italic-type for the font?

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    Maybe David does not have an italic variant (or you don't have it installed). Try David CLM from culmus.sourceforge.net
    – David Purton
    Mar 16, 2019 at 13:18
  • I downloaded it using this link: ma.huji.ac.il/~sameti/tex/culmusmiktex.html for Windows, but it doesn't seem to be working... When trying to write in italic variant it just says that the file is not found.David CLM exists, but its italic variant doesn't.
    – ABN263
    Mar 16, 2019 at 19:07
  • Italics aren't really used in hebrew typesetting. Some people do letterspacing (which I suggest against). There is a way to fake it, though. You can use the AutoFakeSlant option with a negative number when you use the font. Although that's also arguably a bad idea.
    – A Gold Man
    Mar 16, 2019 at 21:10
  • Make sure what you downloaded includes David CLM in OpenType format and it is installed as a system font so it appears in other applications (e.g., Word).
    – David Purton
    Mar 16, 2019 at 22:01
  • Actually, you definitely don't want that MikTeX download. I does not include any OpenType fonts, only formats for use with pdflatex. You want to download the latest release from SourceForge: sourceforge.net/projects/culmus/files/culmus/0.133
    – David Purton
    Mar 16, 2019 at 22:11

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This works as it should on a stable Debian system - although I had to use \setmainfont{David CLM} instead of \setmainfont{David} (there is no David font available in Debian, only David CLM)

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