[texhax] Hebrew TeX

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Joshua Grauman wrote:

> I'm new to TeX and have a few questions about getting Hebrew to work.
>
> I've been doing research/testing and these are the things I need to work. I'd
> appreciate help to find out what is the easiest way to get a TeX system that
> supports all of these.

If you have not committed yourself to latex, you can have a look at 
context.

> 1) Hebrew support (right to left, correct pagination, etc.)
See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Aleph and 
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Aleph_Guide

> 2) Unicode/UTF-8

Context has full unicode support

> 3) True Type Fonts (I would like to use SIL's Ezra unicode Hebrew font,
>    but am open to other good, free unicode fonts)

Don't know about that.

> 4) Memoir class (I need paragraph footnotes)

Context also supports that.

> I currently have teTeX 3.0 which came with my Slackware 10.2 distribution.
> However, I don't believe babel in it has Hebrew support, and I can't seem to
> get Hebrew support added...

You can update the context that comes with tetex, see 
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Linux_Installation


If you want more details before you switch, you can ask on the context 
mailing list http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Mailing_Lists

Aditya