<p>Hello everybody,</p>
<p>I'm Samuel, I'm french (so please forgive my english faults). I'm new to the world of TeX, LaTeX and of course Omega too. <br>I need (in fact my sister need but i'll do the job for her) to typeset biblical hebrew (for research paper needs) with all the strange stuff around the letters : cantilation, vocalisation and so on.
<br>So I brought together my courage and decide to dive in the world of TeX. I discover CTAN and in the hebrew section an interesting package called Makor that let you typeset at least the bible if you had the courage...<br>
I installed quite easily ProTeXt (MikTeX, TeXniccenter, ghostscript/view...) , tested it with french basic document but things got complex when I tried to obtain my first "hello world" example in biblical hebrew. I read the manual and it is said that Makor use Omega/TeX. I try to read a few thing about Omega but I cannot find any document saying (for a newcomer) how to use it in the context of a ProTeX or TeXLive basic installation and how these progamms (it seems omega and lambda) interact with TeX when I push the Ctrl+F7 button on TeXnicenter the moment I compile.
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<p> first question : Did I miss something on the internet ? Do I have to read something before bothering people on this list ? Is there a tutorial somewhere ?</p>
<p>Then the guy (Alan Hoenig) says in the Makor documentation that you have to :</p>
<p>"place psfonts.mkr2 into your file psfonts.map" </p>
<p> second question : how do i do this with MikTeX ? In the settings I made miktex point on the Makor tree (it is suppose to work because makor tree respect the TDS I read and trust) and then refresh the FNDB (file name data base ?). I even found the
psfonts.map in my windows settings (C:\Documents and Settings\sayag_s\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.7\dvips\config) but couldn't see the mapping of the new fonts (maybe it is normal i don't know ...).</p>
<p>and then run in commands :</p>
<p>C:\> omega mkrotest <br>C:\> lambda mkrltest</p>
<p>these commands did produce the DVI I was waiting for (i still do not understand what is the difference between the omega and lambda and why i need two command to produce two docs even if i need one at the end) but then another problem rose :
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<p>the YAP.exe wich is the DVI viewer cannot find this ezra fonts but I noticed he could find the ezra2 font at the right place. It is strange because both the font should be at the same place (is it a makor bug).</p>
<p>after three days trying this and that I'm just a bit discouraged that's why I ask for help (the french tex list GUTemberg has no idea about how to solve the probleme and a few forum gave me the same answer : you need somebody that know something about Omega...)
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<p>Thank (a lot) by advance if somebody can help<br>(I promise I'll make a tutorial for newbies once the whole thing is finished :))<br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Samuel SAYAG<br>