[OS X TeX] hebrew in LaTeX

[Alan Munn]

I don't work with Hebrew, but it seems that if you really want to "get with the program", XeLaTeX and the polyglossia package is the way to go. Then you can use any of the many Hebrew fonts around without much fuss.  Here's a sample document:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/15538/2693

Alan

On Jun 22, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Art Werschulz wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> For a long time, I've been using Joel M. Hoffman's system for Hebrew in TeX and LaTeX.  This system gives you a file hletter1.tex that sets things up, as well as MetaFont sources for various fonts, such as hclassic.
> 
> The problem: hclassic is a part of ArabTeX.  This seems to become the default; there's a line
> 	hclassic TeX-hclassic <hclassic-4.pfb
> in psfonts.map.  Said font does not play nicely with hletter1.tex; I get a lot of "undefined character" error msgs.
> 
> So I figured that I should get with the program, and use the new version.  
> 
> =====
> 
> I tried using the hebrew option to babel:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[hebrew]{babel}
> 
> \begin{document}
> {\sethebrew
> ^slwm}
> hello
> \end{document}
> 
> I got the following:
> 
> ERROR: I can't find file `jerus10'.
> 
> --- TeX said ---
> <*> ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input jerus10
> 
> Please type another input file name
> ! Emergency stop.
> <*> ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input jerus10
> 
> Transcript written on mfput.log.
> grep: jerus10.log: No such file or directory
> mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input jerus10' failed to make jerus10.tfm.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> 
> ! Font LHE/cmr/m/n/10=jerus10 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
> <to be read again> 
>                   relax 
> l.2 \select at language{hebrew}
> 
> I used the CTAN search page, trying to find said font (jerus10, jerus10.pfb, jerus10.tfm, jersu10.mf); I didn't find anything.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> 
> =====
> 
> I also tried using the Hebrew mode of ArabTeX (replacing \usepackage[hebrew]{babel} with \usepackage{hebtex}.  This time, I got
> 
> ERROR: LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
> 
> --- TeX said ---
> 
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
> ...                                              
> 
> l.47 \allowarab \äâéÖ
>                     		\allowarab \õÒÔ¨
> 
> Apparently, hebtex.sty is trying to typeset some characters.  That's a no-no, since style files are supposed to appear before \begin{document}, but \begin{document} must appear before any typestting takes place.  
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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