Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Can't use graphics packages with [hebrew]{babel}

[YS9901]

Hi, I'm trying to add some figures to my text which is written in Hebrew. When I'm using one of the graphics packages, like [tikz] and [graphicx], to add figures, all the figures appear on the text just fine. But adding the [hebrew]{babel} package replaces all of the figures in the text with blank white space. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

[Johannes_B]

Hi, can you add a minimal but compilable example for us to reproduce the issue? This might be something very trivial in your code.

[YS9901]

Ok, with this code I get a square

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0,0) -- (4,0) -- (4,4) -- (0,4) -- (0,0);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

With this code I get a blank page

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[hebrew]{babel}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0,0) -- (4,0) -- (4,4) -- (0,4) -- (0,0);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

This is a known problem. I found an answer by Stefan and it seems, you simply need to locally switch the language to english.

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\documentclass[english,fleqn]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9,utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[english,hebrew]{babel}
\begin{document}
טקסט לפני תמונה

\begin{otherlanguage}{english}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1]
\draw (0,0) -- (1,1);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{otherlanguage}

טקסט אחרי תמונה
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

So your test document would be, adding english support for TikZ pictures:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[english,hebrew]{babel}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{otherlanguage}{english}
  \begin{tikzpicture}
    \draw (0,0) -- (4,0) -- (4,4) -- (0,4) -- (0,0);
  \end{tikzpicture}
\end{otherlanguage}
\end{document}

Stefan