Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Parts of a Document in Hebrew

[mayak]

Hi,

I have to write the abstract to my thesis in Hebrew
I search the entire web and tried everything that was suggested. Nothing worked. Here is my current code:

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{ucs}   % package to add unicode support
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}  % adding the UTF-8 encoding
\usepackage[english,hebrew]{babel}  % telling babel: english & hebrew in doc.
\usepackage{hebfont}  % Adding a selection of fonts.

\begin{document}
ahah
\end{document}

as you can see there's even no hebrew there and still i get the message (after using the command: "pdflatex file_name.tex", i don't know if that's important):

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miktex-makemf: The jerus source file could not be found.
Running hbf2gf.exe...

hbf2gf (CJK ver. 4.8.0)

Couldn't find `jerus.cfg'
miktex-maketfm: No creation rule for font jerus10.

! Font LHE/cmr/m/n/12=jerus10 at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou
nd.
<to be read again> 
                   relax 
l.9 \begin{document}
                    
? 

I have no idea why. I searched for the error over the web too and found no solution that helped me. Can anyone please please help me? If not I'll have use word, and i really don't want to...

Thanks.

[justdeath]

Fonts are a tricky thing. (So is google, but that is another story).

Download this:
ftp://ftp.cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/lang ... BREW32.ZIP
You can even check the so many directories there, which I did (unfortunately):
ftp://ftp.cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/lang ... ew/hebtex/

Because I started trying to install the fonts the hard way.
At least I found a very useful manual on METAFONT:
http://metafont.tutorial.free.fr/downloads/mftut.pdf
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/me ... inners.pdf

So, open the archive, you need the directories in texmf, exactly:

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doc,fonts,tex

You must extract them in you texmf directory of your distribution:

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TeXLive: C:\texlive\2011\texmf-dist
MiKTeX: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9

Press Start -> Run -> cmd, then type texhash and press enter.
This will refresh the tex database.

Compile your file. Have fun!

Nikolay

[ice_cream]

Hi,

I also have to write my thesis with an Hebrew chapter. I do have the same error message.

Did you solve the problem and how?

Thank you

[ice_cream]

Hi,

I fixed the problem by installing Hebrew fonts from:
http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~sameti/tex/culmusmiktex.html

I hope it can help others.

[Leo__]

It did not work for me.

[Johannes_B]

Sorry to hear that, but what do you expect a helper to do now?

Leave some more information, say what you have tried and maybe a solution can be found.


As you can see in the following example, everything is fine (at least i hope so, i can't read nor speak hebrew).

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% compile with xelatex
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{hebrew}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\begin{document}

\chapter{english}
\refname \newline
\figurename\newline
\tablename\newline

\selectlanguage{hebrew}
\chapter{hebrew}
\refname \newline
\figurename\newline
\tablename\newline
\end{document}

[Leo__]

Sorry my last post sounded a bit desperate. I was in the middle of trials.

After a few hours, I uninstalled WinEdt, Miktex 9 (although I had the updated versions already) and culmus and reinstalled them. And it worked. Something must have been wrong with my installation.

As to your Xelatex suggestion, Johannes_B, I cannot compile it. I get a message similar to that of mayak but with Linux Libertine.



!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
!
! The font "Linux Libertine O" cannot be found.
!
! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
!
! For immediate help type H <return>.
!...............................................

l.7 \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}

[Johannes_B]

mayak never noted that error.
You can also try \usepackage{libertine} instead of seeting the main font.

[Leo__]

Thank you !

With \usepackage{libertine}, your suggestion works.

I will use polyglossia for future (xe)latex files.

However, as a publisher that has very big latex files (using babel with several languages including Hebrew, English, French and Greek) that used to compile well, I wish I could have a solution without resorting to polyglossia.

I thought I had solved the problem by reinstalling Miktex, culmus, etc. But I ran into the exact same problem again when I tried to recompile these (not so old: max 2 or 3 years old) files.