Hi I thank you very much for your advices,<br><br>I've seen XeTeX indeed while I was browsing the web and I'll consider that solution if there's no better. I worked on it this afternoon and solve my problem on omega and lambda (I just made a few try with options with linux's man omega/lambda command) I've still that problem of the font not found in dvi output ... but I produce regular .pdf/.ps with my first
<span style="font-style: italic;">shalom aholam</span> exemple. I'm very exited about it.<br><br>I visited your SIL site wich i'll be interesed in but i feel i could have the same problem with your solution.<br><br>
Obviously, I produce regular DVI but my Yap (dvi viewer) program cannot find this ezra font. I think there is something like a font map to udpdate maybe that is used by yap but i'm so knew to TeX systems that I'm still wondering what is it, where in the TDS i can find it and how to modify.
<br><br>Thanks to spend time to answer <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/1/24, Jonathan Kew <<a href="mailto:jonathan_kew@sil.org">jonathan_kew@sil.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello Samuel,<br><br>This is not a direct answer to your Omega questions, but you could<br>consider the alternative Unicode-enabled TeX extension, XeTeX. I am<br>attaching a basic XeTeX sample file, and the corresponding PDF
<br>output, to illustrate the capabilities. It is also possible to use<br>Hebrew in conjuction with LaTeX packages, etc., for more advanced<br>document structure and formatting; there is an active mailing list<br>(see <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/XeTeX">
http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/XeTeX</a>) where you will find other<br>users interested in these issues.<br><br>XeTeX is included with MikTeX 2.7 and other recent TeX distributions,<br>and requires very little effort to set up; to process the attached
<br>sample, all you need is the "Ezra SIL" OpenType font installed in<br>your Windows Fonts folder. (It would also work with other fonts such<br>as SBL Hebrew just by changing the name in the \font declaration.)
<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Jonathan<br><br><br><br><br>On 24 Jan 2008, at 9:14 am, sam sayag wrote:<br><br>> Hello everybody,<br>><br>> I'm Samuel, I'm french (so please forgive my english faults). I'm<br>
> 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<br>> typeset biblical hebrew (for research paper needs) with all the<br>> strange stuff around the letters : cantilation, vocalisation and so
<br>> on.<br>> So I brought together my courage and decide to dive in the world of<br>> TeX. I discover CTAN and in the hebrew section an interesting<br>> package called Makor that let you typeset at least the bible if you
<br>> had the courage...<br>> I installed quite easily ProTeXt (MikTeX, TeXniccenter, ghostscript/<br>> view...) , tested it with french basic document but things got<br>> complex when I tried to obtain my first "hello world" example in
<br>> biblical hebrew. I read the manual and it is said that Makor use<br>> Omega/TeX. I try to read a few thing about Omega but I cannot find<br>> any document saying (for a newcomer) how to use it in the context
<br>> of a ProTeX or TeXLive basic installation and how these progamms<br>> (it seems omega and lambda) interact with TeX when I push the Ctrl<br>> +F7 button on TeXnicenter the moment I compile.<br>><br>> first question : Did I miss something on the internet ? Do I have
<br>> to read something before bothering people on this list ? Is there a<br>> tutorial somewhere ?<br>><br>> Then the guy (Alan Hoenig) says in the Makor documentation that you<br>> have to :<br>><br>> "place
psfonts.mkr2 into your file psfonts.map"<br>><br>> second question : how do i do this with MikTeX ? In the settings I<br>> made miktex point on the Makor tree (it is suppose to work because<br>> makor tree respect the TDS I read and trust) and then refresh the
<br>> FNDB (file name data base ?). I even found the psfonts.map in my<br>> windows settings (C:\Documents and Settings\sayag_s\Local Settings<br>> \Application Data\MiKTeX\2.7\dvips\config) but couldn't see the
<br>> mapping of the new fonts (maybe it is normal i don't know ...).<br>><br>> and then run in commands :<br>><br>> C:\> omega mkrotest<br>> C:\> lambda mkrltest<br>><br>> these commands did produce the DVI I was waiting for (i still do
<br>> not understand what is the difference between the omega and lambda<br>> and why i need two command to produce two docs even if i need one<br>> at the end) but then another problem rose :<br>><br>> the
YAP.exe wich is the DVI viewer cannot find this ezra fonts but<br>> I noticed he could find the ezra2 font at the right place. It is<br>> strange because both the font should be at the same place (is it a<br>> makor bug).
<br>><br>> after three days trying this and that I'm just a bit discouraged<br>> that's why I ask for help (the french tex list GUTemberg has no<br>> idea about how to solve the probleme and a few forum gave me the
<br>> same answer : you need somebody that know something about Omega...)<br>><br>> Thank (a lot) by advance if somebody can help<br>> (I promise I'll make a tutorial for newbies once the whole thing is<br>
> finished :))<br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Samuel SAYAG<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> omega mailing list<br>> <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/omega">
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