I probably should have mentioned that using Culmus fonts gives rise to many
other problems (some I know workarounds for, some I don't). As far as I can
understand, many of the problems arise from the fact that while (at least
some of) these fonts contain English (or basic ASCII) characters, the OTF
info doesn't register that, so you get lot's of errors when trying to use
English and Hebrew in the same document (which happens a lot!).
The simplest workaround is adding something like this in the preamble:
\newfontfamily{\englishfont}{Times New Roman}
\newfontfamily{\englishfontt}{Nimbus Sans L}
\newfontfamily{\englishfonttt}{Nimbus Mono L}
(substitute for your favorite free/non-free English fonts)
But I still get some weird fontspec/polyglossia errors when trying to set a
font other then default. I don't know enough about XeTeX to quite figure
out why is that so, though. Some of the problems, at least, seem to be
solved by reversing the order of the language / font tags in the TeX code
[i.e. \textsf{\textenglish{sans-serif text}} rather than the
\textenglish{\textsf{not-working}} generated by LyX. I don't know whether
this could create other problems, though]
And while we're at it - maybe it would be beneficial to allow setting
different fonts for different languages in LyX's document settings, so that
such preamble lines are not necessary :)
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Itai Shaked <itai.sha...@mail.huji.ac.il>
> wrote:
> > I don't think it matters what fonts are used. I find the
> FreeSans/FreeSerif
> > fonts quite ugly, so I use the Culmus fonts (http://culmus.sf.net/ ;
> David
> > or Frank Ruhel for serif, Nachlieli for sans serif and Miriam for
> > mono/typewriter).
>
> OK good to know. I might as well test with fonts that are actually used.
>
> > I don't know of any way to make hyperref work with Hebrew using pdfTeX,
> and
> > I've looked around quite a bit. I know there is a workaround using
> ps2pdf,
> > but I don't know the details of which.
> > This is, in fact, the main reason I've switched to XeTeX (and the fact
> the
> > pdfTeX also has trouble with niqqud).
>
> That's unfortunate. If you find a solution, let us know.
>
> > What I meant with my first message was - isn't \pdfbookmark a hyperref
> > thing? as I said - I don't know a lot about it, but I've never gotten pdf
> > bookmarks in my output without checking "Use Hyperref", so I assumed it
> is
> > so.
>
> I think you are right, in which case using it in the preamble is
> currently useless. But perhaps someday we will find a solution to the
> "Use Hyperref" issue that you mentioned. If you suggest removing it
> from the preamble, I'm fine with that too.
>
> Scott
>
