Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2014-07-23, Will Parsons wrote: >> Guenter Milde wrote: >>> On 2014-07-22, Will Parsons wrote: > >> Thanks - this looks promising. I'll just have to find out what fonts >> support all my characters. Is there a good way to do that short of >> trying them one-by-one? > > As non-TeX fonts == system fonts, there is a wide choice: > > You may use a font preview program (which, depends on your OS and other > preferences). > > Alternatively, you may use a WYSIWYG "text processor" and try a paragraph > with Latin, Greek and Hebrew in different system fonts. > > DejaVu and Linux Libertine are fonts that are known to support a wide range > of characters.
So far, the only font I've found already installed that supports IPA, Greek, and Hebrew is "DejaVu Sans". Curiously, even "DejaVu Serif" does not support Hebrew, which is unfortunate since I would rather see the main text in a serif font. (After further investigation, I can kind of get around that by making "DejaVu Serif" the Roman style, "DejaVu Sans" the Sans Serif style, and changing the text style of each Hebrew text to use Sans Serif. But that's going to be very painful.) >>> Otherwise: >>> Are Hebrew 8-bit TeX fonts and the TeX support for Hebrew installed? > >> Excuse my ignorance, but how do I determine that? > > This depends on your setup. You may look for the presence of hebrew.ldf > or a similar Babel language file in your system. On Debian, a package like > texlive-language-hebrew (or similar) may be installed or not installed. I'm working on FreeBSD, but I guess I do, since I see the files generic/babel/hebrew.ldf and xelatex/polyglossia/gloss-hebrew.ldf. > In lyx, you can search the document under Help>LaTeX configuration > for a line like > > Your LaTeX installation has hyphenation patterns for the following > languages: > > and see if hebrew is listed in the following lines. I don't see that line anywhere (LyX 2.1.0). -- Will
