[XeTeX] Ancient Hebrew font problem

[Kirk Lowery]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:42:51PM -0400, Kirk Lowery wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Carsten Ziegert <
> carsten_ziegert at sil.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Thanks a lot for all your hints!
> >     However, when I tried Kirk's example (see below) I noticed that bib
> >     wasn't yet installed. After installing bidi it complained that
> iftex.sty
> >     was not available. But after installing iftex I got the following
> error
> >     message:
> >
> >     ! Package bidi Error: TeX engines other than XeTeX and LuaTeX are not
> >     yet supported.
> >
> >
> >
> > Your log says:
> >
> > Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
> dumylang, noh
> > yphenation, basque, french, german, ngerman, ibycus, greek, monogreek,
> ancientg
> > reek, loaded.
> >
> > Don't use Babel.
>
> Babel is already loaded in the format, this message is about hyphenation
> patterns, which is managed by Babel even if you don't use it e.g. using
> polygloassia. It actually has nothing to do with the issue here.
>
> For some reason iftex doesn't detect XeTeX of the OP, so I'd rather
> direct this to iftex author.
>

I later noticed that the format includes LaTeX3 stuff. Would that cause any
incompatibilities?

Kirk
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The J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research
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