[OS X TeX] Looking for hebrew LaTeX fonts

[Alain Schremmer]

On May 29, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:31 AM, André Bellaïche
> <abellaic at math.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am trying to type a few lines in hebrew using
>>
>> \usepackage[french,hebrew]{babel}
>> \usepackage{hebcal}
>>
>> as shown in The LaTeX Companion (2nd French edition).
>>
>> But I get the following error message
>>
>> ! Font LHE/cmr/m/n/10=jerus10 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)  
>> file not found.
>>
>> before pdftex any attempt to read the text file. I use TeXLive  
>> 2008, which contains only two copies of jerus.htf but no fonts.
>>
>> Some research with Google shows that many people have tried to  
>> found the jerus font, but nobody has succeeded.
>>
>> Any help would be welcome
>>
>> André Bellaïche
>
>
> The same with TL2009 and TL2010 prerelease.
>
> http://dir.filewatcher.com/d/TeX-CTAN/language/hebrew/hebtex/unix/ 
> new/hebfonts.tar.gz.308893.html
>
> One can really find them on some CTAN mirrors but on CTAN itself they
> seem to be renamed
>
> PS: Note to the original poster: such queries belong to texlive  
> mailing list

Well, if we are going to be that specialized, I thing about 90% of my  
queries will have to be re-directed. But where to? Sigh!

Dismayed regards
--schremmer