The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well.
Hi I saw some recent posts on teTeX and Hebrew in several mailing lists and newsgroups (debian-user, comp.text.tex, tetex). I would welcome the idea of having an easy option to typeset Hebrew in teTeX. Well, consider this: a) teTeX seems to be the default TeX distribution for the most popular Linux distributions (Debian, Red Hat, Slackware). And I am almost sure that Linux is the most popular platform for teTeX's world, too. Now, if one uses Linux with teTeX and wants to typeset in Hebrew, one has in principle two possibilities: b) one can do some (not so obvious) recompiling to make teTeX aware of TeX--XeT capabilities. This is not very attractive, and it reminds me of reinventing the wheel, since the people need to repeat this step worldwide. I think that a complete TeX distribution should have these TeX--XeT capabilities included as an option, shouldn't it? c) one can use for example the NTeX distribution instead of teTeX, where TeX--XeT and Hebrew is fully supported out of the box. But this is not very attractive, too, due to the item cited under a) above. Is it possible to "release" some TeX--XeT support for teTeX, at least to make the item cited under b) more straightforward? Will teTeX support TeX--XeT some day in the future? Or, is moving to NTeX a better solution? What is your experience? Best wishes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
