On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Mordechai Butrashvily <moti....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello friends, > > It seems like the last resort I can refer too with these matters. > Please accept my apology if it's not the first time a question like this is > asked, but the more you try the more you learn (hopefully). > Searching over and over the internet for the last couple of days, none > helped. > > To summarize in short, I'm using a Fedora 18 system, installed with latest > Lyx, texlive and culmus (all fonts) packages. > Had to switch from a different system few days ago, where the setup was > working fine (after many struggles). > > A simple document was created with some text (English and Hebrew), and once > PDF file is created an error message is output: > "!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file rnachlieli): Font rnachlieli at 600 not > found". > > After some investigation and manual execution of the tex document, the error > comes from the following command: > " > # mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 rnachlieli > mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for rnachlieli. > mktexpk: perhaps rnachlieli is missing from the map file. > " > > Using texhash, map files, etc. all report that configuration seem to be OK. > But something is missing. > " > # kpsewhich culmus.map > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local/texmf-compat/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/culmus.map > " > > Following this description, please allow me to start from an earlier point: > 1. Should anything be done beyond installing lyx (with dependencies + > tex-live) and culmus to make hebrew writing possible? > 2. Any further configuration? etc. > > And some further questions, are those PK fonts necessary? Maybe it's > possible to use the TFM fonts directly or so? > Also tried to use other possibilities (XeTex etc.), none solved it, as it > always comes to the error produced by mktexpk. > > I also attach the document, in case it would help. > > Any help or direction will be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Moti.
Hi Moti, Have you read http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HebrewOnLinux ? This is just a complete guess, but maybe you are missing this step: b. in the Language tab (menu on the left side of the window), Set Language to "Hebrew", Set encoding to "other: Hebrew (CP 1255)". Best, Scott
