Peleg Michaeli wrote:
Thank you all for your replies!
I will try ivritex's mailing list; it's quite weird, because I do have
culmus fonts installed - the problem is with ivritex, still?
Probably. My understanding is that most of the functionality of ivritex
has already been incorporated into babel (3.8, I believe). However, that
does *not* include usage of the culmus fonts --- so the fact that
they're installed in the system doesn't mean that latex knows how to use
them yet. That is still under development under the auspices of ivritex,
and can be downloaded here
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=33341. But I
think that it's not complete yet, though I'm not sure.
So here's what I would do:
1) try installing culmus-latex from the above link, and see how it is.
You might want to try the subversion repository, which is slightly more
up-to-date.
2) If it's not good enough, get in touch with the ivritex mailing list
and see if anyone knows what the current status is: is this still being
developed? Will this work ever be incorporated into babel, too?
3) It would be interesting to understand how the culmus fonts *do*
already work in latex on Windows --- maybe that can point in a direction
for getting it working on Linux, too... Agai, the ivritex list is where
I would pursue this...
Anyway, it is comfoting that you can see both in a good quality.
Yes, I am not using adobe reader (since it is not free software); I am
using just simple PDF viewer (actually, Evince 0.8.1) - for the
experiment, I have tried a different PDF viewer - KGhostView 0.2.0 - and
it looks much better - but this software is awfully slow and have
problems with zoomings.
Hmmm, I guess you're more idealistic than me... I have found that the
quality in Acrobat Reader (which is at least free as in beer) is often
significantly better than the open source alternatives that I have tried
--- though I haven't tried these in a couple of years, so things may be
better today. I'm sorry to hear the evince isn't better, I was hoping
that perhaps it would be. You might want to try okular --- it's the new
KDE viewer, still under development, I believe. Haven't tried it myself,
though...
Dov
