Questions tagged [hebrew]
{hebrew} is about authoring and compiling TeX documents with Hebrew (and/or Yiddish) language content.
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Beamer multi-language text alignment
I encountered a weird issue with the Polyglossia package. RTL text is centred unless I insert before text in english.
MWE1 (Hebrew text is centred):
%Compile with XeLaTex
\documentclass{beamer}
%------...
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Hebrew language causes troubles with figure* environment?
I want to write a book document class, with the use of sidenotes and marginnote to produce a document that resembles in appearance the tufte-book document class.
The thing is that I am including some ...
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figure environment isn't compiling with babel and hebrew in pdflatex
I have a project that is written both in Hebrew and in English, which is compiled with pdfLatex on Overleaf. Since this compiler is not a Unicode engine, one has to declare the Hebrew letters ...
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Declare missing unicode characters in a separate file
This question is concerned about writing a non-english document in LaTeX.
I compile my Hebrew document with pdfLaTeX. I know, XeLaTex or LuaLaTeX with the polyglossia package are Unicode engines, and ...
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Issues with Beamer Notes and LuaLaTeX/XeLaTeX
I encountered some issues when using Beamer Notes with LuaLaTeX/XeLaTeX.
Issue with LuaLaTeX:
MWE1 - LuaLaTeX + Notes + Babel with Hebrew as main page = Invisible note
Removing the language lines of ...
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LuaLaTeX Beamer notes, and Hebrew as Babel main language causes invisible notes
@UlrikeFischer
@JavierBezos
When I add the word "main" to babel's language preference, notes become invisible.
MWE1 - Without the word "main":
\documentclass{beamer}
\...
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Multi-file latex project, with a title page in hebrew
I have a large LaTeX project (my thesis) with a main TeX file (main.tex) and many subfiles contained in their own sub-directory. All are interrelated with the subfiles package.
Now I want to add a ...
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Problem with writing in Hebrew in LyX
I'm using LyX to write in Hebrew. I was using LyX 2.3.1 and wished to update it to the newest version, so I followed the installation instructions from LyX wiki. About a month ago I've done the exact ...
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How do I moving the title of the biblography to the right side?
I'm writing document at Hebrew so it RTL, but my bibliography includes an English articles.
The result is this:
I want to move מקורות to the right side. Is it possible?
Here is the code:
\begin{...
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Problems viewing chess board in Hebrew document
I'm trying to draw a chess board with skak but this is the result:
As you can see it's opposite...
Here is MWE:
\documentclass[hebrew,english]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\makeatletter
\...
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lyx doesn't find hebrew fonts
I am using LyX with TeX Live. I have tried to export a file with the fonts David CLM and Hadasim CLM. But the system writes that the fonts do not exist, even though I already installed them. ...
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Hebrew name typesetting
I am working on typesetting a list of names for a project. All of the names are in English besides one, which is in hebrew. How do I typeset the symbols for this name in XeTeX?
\documentclass[twoside, ...
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Vertical alignment of foreign language in table
I'm trying to have two texts parallel in a tabular environment.
My MWE:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage[nil, main=german, bidi=basic]{babel}
\babelfont[hebrew]{rm}{Ezra SIL}
\usepackage{array}...
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Hebrew Latex - VSCode
I'm using VSCode to write a .tex files.
I've downloaded MikTeX to get latex on my computer.
I'm trying to add a Hebrew text to the file and got a bunch of errors.
I tried to download the culmus-...
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Numbering appears from right to left in mixed language
I'm having trouble with section numbering appearing in a reverse order and reversed parentheses in formulas for a file mainly written in English, with some Hebrew at the first two pages.
I've tried ...
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Description indented too much inside framed (in Hebrew)
I'm writing lecture notes in Hebrew using lyx. I use the framed package to have my theorems inside a nice gray box. It all seemed to work fine, until I noticed a strange behavior when I try to put a ...
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How do I change languages for text in math mode?
So I have a document with Hebrew as its main language and English as the secondary language. Hebrew is used for regular text and English is used for both regular text and text inside math formulas. ...
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Misplaced comma after LTR word in bidirectional document
I am writing documents with both English and Hebrew text in LaTeX. It works well, except for one thing: when there is a punctuation mark after an English word in a Hebrew sentence, the mark is ...
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xelatex+polyglossia+hebrew: how to avoid parasitic blank space
This is a problem I have for many years now, maybe you can help me solve it.
I use the latest version of polyglossia (v1.50a), fontspec (v2.7i) and xetex (3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020)).
For ...
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The algpseudocode/algorithmicx package can't be used with the Hebrew babel package
The following LaTeX document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[hebrew, english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage[]{...
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polyglossia hebrew as a secondary language for title and author
I'm trying to set hebrew as a secondary language with polyglossia.
I wish that the title, author and date would be in hebrew and the rest would be defaulted to english.
This is how my document is set-...
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Words jumped in output using hebrew
My codes are follows:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[hebrew,russian,english]{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item
\textbf{Form}: WG\\
\textbf{Contributor}: ...
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Misplaced bracket with Hebrew text containing letter, digits and hyphen
When displaying a Hebrew text, containing letters, digits, and a hyphen - all of these inside brackets, the ending bracket is misplaced.
MWE (using XeLaTeX):
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{...
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Hyphenation character makes Hebrew words disappear in HarfTeX
Hebrew uses maqaf as a hyphenation character, and I have to declare it if I want to use it instead of the usual hyphen. However, this declaration somehow makes certain words disappear in Hebrew when I ...
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Conflict between babel-hebrew and arabi
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass[
hebrew,% breaks
farsi,% or arabic
% hebrew,% compiles
english]{article}
\usepackage[LAE,LFE,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[cp1255,utf8,latin9]{...
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Tables with Hebrew text using babel
I have a document in Hebrew which I render using babel and now I want to add a table which includes text in Hebrew. While the entire document renders ok, in this case the text is rendered in the wrong ...
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2answers
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Fancyhdr and SBL Hebrew font
I wanted to use fancyhdr in a document with the SBL Hebrew font. However, I get warning messages about undefined font shapes. Please see my example below:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec,...
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reledmac: Problem with RTL apparatus
I'm using reledmac to edit Hebrew texts. As the texts themselves are written right-to-left, I also want my apparatuses to behave that way. For the annotations (\footnoteA) this works smoothely out-of-...
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1answer
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In polyglossia, how can I change the English font in a Hebrew document
I want to use polyglossia to write a Hebrew document with some English. The definition of the english font families only applies to English text included within Hebrew text (the word Corona), but not ...
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\tl_replace_all:Nnn breaking with certain unicode characters?
Certain sequences of Unicode characters, particularly involving Hebrew yud (י) seem to have strange behavior with \tl_replace_all:Nnn. In the following MWE for XeLaTeX, some of these sequences when ...
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Editing Hebrew in TexShop on Mac
I am using latex in hebrew with beamer. I have existing files I want to edit.
I compile them using LuaLatex on TexShop and it works fine.
But I cannot edit the source files using TextEdit because the ...
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Polyglossia Hebrew added horizontal space
As you can see in the picture, using Polyglossia to insert a snippet of Hebrew is giving me an unwanted space before the Hebrew insertion. And as you can see, it's not happening with Arabic, so it's ...
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Unicode normalization and Hebrew in ConTeXt
I am typesetting a document in Hebrew that includes pointing (e.g., vowels, shin and sin dots, dagesh, etc.) using ConTeXt. The Hebrew text that I want to typeset has been normalized into Unicode's ...
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LyX with XeTeX refuses to use the italics version of David CLM
I've been using a setup of LyX with XeTeX on my laptop and it's been working just fine. However, I installed it on my desktop (with the same fonts, packages, everything) and I've noticed that whenever ...
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Hebrew causes tikz-uml to not work
The following code works:
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, oneside]{book}
\usepackage{tikz-uml}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{...
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Enumerate out of box
I'm trying to make an enumerated list inside a box, but the bullets/numbers appears out of the box margins.
Is there a way to fix that?
code:
\documentclass[english,hebrew]{article}
\usepackage[...
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Maintain right to left Hebrew in English table
Put simply, the Hebrew word comes out correctly in the first instance but backwards in the second. How can I maintain right to left orientation of the text?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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Why is my output partially BiDi?
I'm using xelatex (on Debian stable).
My TeX file looks like this:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{hebrew}
\setmainfont{Latin Modern Roman}...
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Text disappears in multilingual document with lualatex and polyglossia
I am attempting to compile the following using lualatex
\documentclass[english,hebrew]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Frank Ruehl CLM}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\...
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The exam class with babel
I am using babel and LaTeX extensively, but have encountered an error I do not understand and would be grateful to get your assistance on.
I have prepared 2 MWE that demonstrate that merely changing ...
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LuaLaTeX and polyglossia 1.47
When I use Hebrew with polyglossia 1.47 and LuaLaTeX on TeXLive 2019, I get an error message that I don't get with polyglossia 1.46. Here is my MWE:
%!TEX TS-program = lualatex
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 ...
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KOMA classes and Hebrew script with Polyglossia
I am trying to type a text with both Hebrew and English. Following this answer, I was trying to use polyglossia together with a Hebrew Font I downloaded from OpenSiddur.
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\...
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Missing Hebrew vowels in LuaLaTeX
Since I had some annoying warnings with XeLaTeX and Polyglossia, I tried my luck with LuaLaTeX. Unfortunately Polyglossia simply returns a complaint in a warning:
Package polyglossia Warning: Hebrew ...
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Bidi patching error in XeLaTeX
Recently I have updated my MikTeX, and eversince I get strange warnings. Based on this nice example I tried to reduce my file to minimal, but I still get these warnings saying Patching '\begin' or \...
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How to render Hebrew characters correctly (in reverse)
Pasting a line in my Text Editor (Sublime) reverses the order of the letters like here. How do I orient the letters in reverse so I don't have to retype them or programmatically reverse them and ...
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How can I use any Noto font with latex?
I have heard that XeTeX supports unicode, but in my futile attempts nothing comes about.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ....
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Writing Hebrew text with Lyx
I'm beginner who is interested in learning Latex and I'm currently using Mac OS Catalina.
I decided to use Lyx for writing my lecture notes in Hebrew, so I'v downloaded Lyx. I managed to create files ...
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beamer, bidi, hebrew, xelatex, equation bracket problem
the following minimal example works well with xelatex
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{bidi}
\setmainfont{Arial}
\begin{document}
\setRL
שלום
\begin{equation}
\label{...
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image goes right when using babel
I write in Hebrew, so I use \usepackage[hebrew]{babel}
When I try to add hraphic with \includegraphics{lec2-1.jpg}, the graphic goes right and out of page:
the full code:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]...
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Errors using reledmac in Hebrew
I am trying to use reledmac (v2.31.0) with xelatex to typeset a Hebrew text with Hebrew commentary.
The document fails on the fourth compile with
! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup.
l.6 ]
Here is a ...
