On 2019-08-25, Scott Kostyshak wrote: ... > ... Now all five Hebrew pdf3 tests pass. I still don't > understand why there is not a TeX Live script that takes care of this,
The Culmus package is not on CTAN and not in TeXLive. (Before considering inclusion, the current method of providing their own version of files without name change would need to be fixed.) > but I am guessing no Hebrew users actually export with dvipdfmx. Still > good to have the tests working though. > Günter, do you have an idea of whether Hebrew users would actually use > this "fix"? The reason I ask is that I'm wondering whether to automate > your and Kornel's commands in install-tl-ubuntu (with the --hebrew > option), which people actually use, or alternatively just in lyx-tester > which no one uses? Hard to tell. I suppose most users requiring Hebrew support switched to Xe-/LuaTeX. At least this might explain the bad state of Hebrew support on 8-bit. I proposed a new version for babel-hebrew (including support for Hebrew with standard inputenc's "utf8") this spring but did not get an answer, so maybe this package is up for adoption. In this regard, the situation is similar to Greek -- most people using (modern) Greek do this with Unicode fonts. There is still a number of people that still use 8-bit TeX for various reasons and might gain from 8-bit Hebrew that "just works" (even if there will inevitably be limitations). Günter
