Hi!
You should also check out this package: http://nikud.berlios.de/ . It is
mainly for using nikud, but as a side effect it also uses the culmus
fonts. It's also really simple to use --- after the initial setup
(explained on the site), all you need to do is use the culmus package
instead of babel. I've used it a little bit here and there, but not very
much --- I'd be happy to hear how this compares to the solution
described below. Please keep us posted!
It seems to me that perhaps LyX should use this package (or something
similar) by default, since the default ivritex fonts are not great ---
especially when it comes to bold or italics... How would one go about
doing something like that? (not that I have time to do that at the
moment, but maybe someone else could...?)
Dov
Miki Dovrat wrote:
I actually got it working!!!!
I feel I am stating the obvious to the Hebrew users who already KNOW the
answer and didn't have time to respond.
There is a package called "hebfont.sty", written by Boris Lavva, which has
created macros to use all the hebrew fonts (culmus, and the old default
ones) as
\DeclareTextFontCommand{\text..}{\fontfamily{somefontname}\selectfont}
The package was apparently installed in Windows by the culmus.exe pointed to
by the lyx wiki page on setting up Hebrew. I have seen that this package is
a part of ivritex as well.
He lists there all of the following culmus fonts by their names: david,
frank, aharoni, drugulin, yad, ellinia, miriam, nachlieli, as well as the
old fonts which came with previous latex distributions.
These \selectfont commands get cancelled every time a language change is
made from Hebrew to English or math, so they are good for a few words, a
paragraph or so, but I found an explanation how to change the default font
of the entire document and other font related commands here:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rf10/pstex/latexcommands.htm
so
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ellinia} will change all Hebrew in the document to
the culmus font Ellinia (for example).
It isn't exactly what I want since it also changes back the English font to
its default cmr (It was lmodren), so I will actually have to look how to
change only the left to right parts.
There is much more variety in the culmus fonts, and they look better.
Thanks for everyone who replied on and off the group.
Miki
