Stefan Krischer writes:
- Is is possible to use hebrew characters in a german Lyx text? If yes how?
- Do I have to install a hebrew font? How?
- Is there a hebrew keybord mapping? (The web page says no, but perhaps it is
not up-to-date.)
- Is it possible to write from right to left?
- Is there a Lyx support for all this or do I need to write Latex-Commands?
- Similar questions about Greek...
If you need only a few characters or words of Hebrew or Yiddish, it
can be done handily in LyX with the package shalom. You add
\usepackage[shalom]{shalom}
to your LaTeX preface, and then include the Hebrew or Yiddish text in
LaTeX mode in a transliterated form:
\shalombox[\large \oldstyle]{\mem\alef/a\nun+ \tet\alef\resh+
\nun\yod\tet+ \bet\ayin\tet\nun+ \alef\vav\yod\fe+ \alef/a+
\nun\yod/a\yod\mem+ \mem\lamed\kaf.}
The shalom package offers several font and other options, and takes
care of reversing the letter order in the words. I don't recall
whether the Hebrew fonts are supplied with the package, or are
separately available from CTAN.
I have used the package in LyX for Yiddish (the above quote) and
Hebrew.
Regards,
--
Ronald Florence http://users.ids.net/~18james
