On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:26:22 +0100 Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de> wrote:
> Shahar Or schrieb: > > > There's one thing I'm curious about; why is this software, when I > > configure it for writing documents in Hebrew, uses Latin9 and cp1255? > > cp1255 is an MS Windows encoding which I've never seen used by default > > in any Free Software. > > Cp1255 works also on Linux as reported and therefore once implemented by our > Hebrew developers. > UTF-8 for LaTeX is work in progress: XeTeX becomes more and more stable and > we'll support it > hopefully for LyX 2.0. I don't know if this is the best option and didn't test it extensively, but changing the latex command for pdflatex from pdflatex to xetex worked at least as a test. > For now UTF8 (that you can already choose) doesn't cover all glyphs. More > information about the > current Unicode support is listed in the Appendix B.7 "Language" of the LyX > UserGuide that you fin > in the Help menu of LyX 1.6.x. > There's also a Wiki page describing how to use LyX for Hebrew: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Hebrew > (also with links to Linux-specific stuff) > and > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HebrewOnLinux > > regards Uwe >
