On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 09:54:38PM +0300, Guy Rutenberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry, for the long delays. family commitments make it hard for me in the
> last few days to be on top of my email (but that's good :-))
No problem at all.
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 22:52, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>
> >
> >
Hi,
Sorry, for the long delays. family commitments make it hard for me in the
last few days to be on top of my email (but that's good :-))
On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 22:52, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>
> > I would suggest shipping LyX with a template file configured with XeTeX
> > (and sensible and com
On 2019-04-29, mn wrote:
> On 29.04.19 14:24, Guenter Milde wrote:
>> On 2019-04-28, Guy Rutenberg wrote:
>>> I think for 99% of the users writing in Hebrew, XeTeX is the (only)
>>> reasonable choice for writing in Hebrew. There are many broken things
>>> pdfTeX when it comes to Hebrew (and RTL la
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 09:46:36PM +0200, mn wrote:
> To me it appears as if the situation is *even worse* in the usage
> scenario "just some Hebrew", or better "mixed scripts".
>
> Think linguists, hebraists, theologians etc. These will often not use a
> single Hebrew word in an otherwise Latin s
On 29.04.19 14:24, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2019-04-28, Guy Rutenberg wrote:
>
>> I think for 99% of the users writing in Hebrew, XeTeX is the (only)
>> reasonable choice for writing in Hebrew. There are many broken things
>> pdfTeX when it comes to Hebrew (and RTL languages), and fonts are only o
Dear Guy, dear LyX developers,
On 2019-04-28, Guy Rutenberg wrote:
> I think for 99% of the users writing in Hebrew, XeTeX is the (only)
> reasonable choice for writing in Hebrew. There are many broken things
> pdfTeX when it comes to Hebrew (and RTL languages), and fonts are only one
> of them (
On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 10:16:15PM +0300, Guy Rutenberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think for 99% of the users writing in Hebrew, XeTeX is the (only)
> reasonable choice for writing in Hebrew. There are many broken things
> pdfTeX when it comes to Hebrew (and RTL languages), and fonts are only one
> of the
Hi,
I think for 99% of the users writing in Hebrew, XeTeX is the (only)
reasonable choice for writing in Hebrew. There are many broken things
pdfTeX when it comes to Hebrew (and RTL languages), and fonts are only one
of them (another example is hyperref).
If you are forced to use pdfTex (or non-X
Dear LyX developers,
currently, typesetting Hebrew with LyX's default settings (i.e. TeX fonts)
requires installation of font packages not in TeXLive.
Installation instructions (partially somewhat outdated) are on the LyX wiki.
The alternatives are:
ivritex fonts
bitmap,
font encoding LHE
