Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
>> On a related note, don't you guys think that an application should >> work out of the box, without having to go hunt around the internet for >> packages and such? > > Sure and you are welcome to help us toward this goal ;-) > I guess that for Hebrew and Arabic we could query the system fonts in a cross-platform way through QFontDatabase, check if there is an otf Hebrew font and then export the LyX file to a XeTeX file and run it through XeTeX. If there is no Hebrew font or XeteX is unavailable, then LyX could spit an error message with a link to the wiki explaining how to install XeTeX and free Hebrew otf fonts. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
