General ⇒ Control Sequence Problem with "makor2" Package

[diekunstderfuge]

Dear all,

I am running TexLive 2010 and LEd 0.536501. I am trying to install Alan Hoenig's makor2 package for Hebrew typesetting. I have followed every instruction for installation in the mkr2man.pdf manual.

In c:/texlive/texmf-local I have merged the contents of makor.zip with their corresponding folders (to preserve TDS directory structure). According to Hoenig's instructions, I have copied the contents of texmf-local/tex/makor2/psfonts.mkr2 to the psfonts.map file in c:/texlive/2010/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap (though the instructions say that the psfonts.map should be located someplace like texmf/dvips/base--there are no .map files in this directory). I have updated the filename database as well.

I have the test file mkrltest.tex open in LEd as follows:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{makor2}

\begin{document}
Hello, world! \[sh^aulOm, `Olaum!\] Goodbye, world!
\end{document}

When I attempt to compile this file using either LaTeX or pdfLaTeX, I get the following error:

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(c:/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
(c:/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(c:/texlive/2010/../texmf-local/tex/latex/makor2/makor2.sty (./makor2.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l. 230 \ocp
          \yid      = m2yiddish
?

Can anybody help me with this error? I am new to LaTeX, and I thought I had installed the package correctly. Has anybody else used Makor2? Please help!

Many thanks,
diekunstderfuge

[localghost]

Wouldn't it be easier to use the TeX Live Manager (tlmgr) for package installation?


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[folofjc]

The TeXLive Utility does not provide this package. I also followed the instructions and got the same error.

[cgnieder]

Hi diekunstderfuge,

Welcome to the LaTeX community.

A quick glance through the manual of »makor2« lead me to this:

The current version demands the use of Omega

The file structure of the »makor2« package suggests that the unknown macro \ocp is indeed an Omega macro.

My knowledge of Omega is little to none except what is written on the Wikipedia site. (I have a vague memory that it is somewhat the predecessor of XeTeX but that might be terribly wrong.)

That is as far as I can help here. Maybe you're better of with the cjhebrew package (which is part of TeX Live).

Regards