Questions tagged [hebrew]
{hebrew} is about authoring and compiling TeX documents with Hebrew (and/or Yiddish) language content.
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the Hebrew numerical system
How can I print in XeTeX the entire Hebrew numerical system like the one example below ?
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Using Palatino font (for math-mode) in documents containing right to left languages (in Lyx)
recently I came across these lecture notes that (I think) are written using the beautiful Palatino font. With a quick google search I have found out that there are two packages one can include to be ...
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Creating a table in XeLaTeX in a Hebrew document
I'm compiling a document completely in Hebrew using XeLaTeX, but I'm having an issue creating a table: using polyglossia, the columns just don't compile...it just gives a string of words. How can I go ...
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Colored hebrew vowels in Xelatex
I'm using xelatex to write some grammatical remarks of biblical Hebrew. I need a different color for some vowels, for example, to illustrate some suffixes. I can't get a correct position of vowel when ...
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How to use greek, hebrew and aramaic in LaTeX on 2025?
I have looked at the best methods to use bible languages in LaTeX. All Q/A found here are dated from 8 to 13 years. Some states to use:
babel [ 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ] others polyglossia [1, 2, 3, ...
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Justification of hebrew
I'm having ugly output of justified text in Hebrew. As if latex a few times does not stretches or expands accurately the space in between characters. Is this inevitable? It occurs every few pages and ...
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Order of index entry
Ho can I specify manually the order of entries for an index? Something like "dog, cat, ameba, fox...". Please see my MWE. The problem is the ordering of bible references in hebrew. It is ...
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MikTeX fails to find glyphs, and does not compile document
I am trying to compile a .tex file which includes hebrew, using the babel package and recieve an error
here is the code i am trying to run:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hebrew]{babel}
\begin{...
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In LuaLatex, how to make footnote counters alphabetic per the Hebrew alphabet?
I am using LuaLatex, and want footnotes to be enumerated using the Hebrew alphabet. Is there a way to do this?
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reledmac: familiar notes in a RTL edition as a clean paragraph without footnote separators and with flexible spacing
I am working on a Hebrew edition with LuaTeX that includes both critical and familiar notes. My challenge is with the formatting of the familiar notes.
The familiar notes mainly consist of short ...
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LyX preview environment doesn't work for me (LyX 2.4.2)
I've posted here some time ago about the same problem since then I've reached out to the LyX mailing list and got some more help and debugging but the problem turned out to be more complicated than ...
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How do I align a LaTeX equation left when the document in in Hebrew?
I am trying to do an assignment in Hebrew in LaTeX. So far, I have written the following:
\begin{enumerate}
\item[א)]
$$\begin{aligned}
(4-9i)(-2-5i)&=4\cdot(-2)+4\cdot(-5i)+(-9i)\cdot(...
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Clash between babel and mathptmx
This is similar to what was asked:
Italic Cyrillic in Times
I'm using both babel and mathptmx, and it seems mathptmx changes the font settings for english and mathematical expressions. While I would ...
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Getting today's hebrew calender date
I'm using babel for hebrew fonts because I have various package-issues with polyglossia. I was wondering if there is a way to get today's date, by the Jewish calender?
This should be similar to how I'...
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When Installing LyX "No textclass is found" message popped when first launching it, how to solve?
I downloaded LyX and TEXlive from the manual in Hebrew, it uses a script to download everything automatically for Hebrew users, (if it helps anyone here's the Hebrew manual it's completely in Hebrew, ...
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