[XeTeX] Using hebrew

[Yaniv Hollander]

Hi,

Your solution worked, I've installed the SBL fonts and the example  
compiled well.
Regarding your other comments that TexShop doesn't use the most up to  
date version of XeTex, what can I do? I've installed TexLive 2007  
newest version, but how can I tell TexShop to use it?
And on another issue, can I use fancy header package with fontspec to  
create headers in hebrew?

Thanks,

On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 7 Mar 2007, at 6:09 am, Yaniv Hollander wrote:
>
>> Here it is...
>>
>> <Test_Hebrew.log>
>>
>
> OK, there are a couple of things I notice here:
>
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.995 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>
> This is not the most recent release of XeTeX; all the current TeX
> Live-based packages include version 0.996. However, this is not the
> main problem; it should still work.
>
>> entering extended mode
>> (./Test_Hebrew.tex
>> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
>> Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french,
>> german, ngerman, b
>> ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
>> esperanto, e
>> stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar,
>> norsk, polis
>> h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
>> swedish, tur
>> kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document  
>> class
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
>
> Likewise, the pathnames here show that you are running an older teTeX-
> based installation. It could be that you have installed a new MacTeX
> or gwTeX recently, but TeXShop is still configured to use an older
> version. But this still shouldn't prevent things working....
>
>> ! Font \zf at basefont="SBL Hebrew/ICU" at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric
>> (TFM) file
>> or installed font not found.
>> \zf at preparse@Script ...\zf at suffix " at \f at size pt
>>                                                   \edef
>> \zf at family@long {\zf...
>> l.11 \setromanfont[Script=Hebrew]{SBL Hebrew}
>
> Here's the basic problem: the sample I sent was set up to use the SBL
> Hebrew font. But you don't have this font installed, and therefore
> you're getting the "font not found" error.
>
> So to solve this, you can get the SBL Hebrew font from the SBL web
> site (see http://www.sbl-site.org/Resources/ as mentioned in a
> comment in the source I sent), and install it in your Library/Fonts
> folder. Or as you're running on Mac OS X, you can use one of Apple's
> fonts that supports Hebrew. E.g., change the font name from {SBL
> Hebrew} to {Lucida Grande}.
>
> JK
>
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Yaniv                       Hollander
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