Comment 10 for bug 580794

Hi JohnDave,

What happens for you if you try this very minimal file?

% -- cut here --
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hebrew]{babel}
\begin{document}
ax`yiz
\end{document}
% -- cut here --

The jerus10 font does seem to be hard to come by, so why it's referenced
in babel/lhecmr.fd as the default font is extremely bizarre...

It is available in this tarball:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ivritex/files/ivritex/ivritex-1.2.1/ivritex-1.2.1.tar.gz/download

I need to do some more work before I can distribute SBL Hebrew as the
default font for LaTeX because the installation is complex and I suspect
highly system dependent :(. I can send you the files, but I don't know
how to install them easily on a Mac system - it's not quite a matter of
just putting them into your tex tree, because you need to alter (or
generate) font mapping files for dvips and pdftex, etc.

It would be better if we can figure out a reliable way to use hebrew
using default tex packages, but just about everyone is using XeTeX for
complex scripts now.

cheers

David

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 03:58:37AM -0000, JohnDave Medina wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Yes, the jerus10 font is missing in my distribution. I tried grabbing
> ivritex but that didn't seem to contain it either. I think it would be
> great if you could upload anything that helps in this. Living in this
> mystery isn't my idea of fun. :-)
>
> JohnDave
>

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