[XeTeX] Hebrew in Xetex

[François Charette]

Jonathan Kew a écrit :
> On 6 Feb 2008, at 11:14 am, Erwin Ochsenmeier wrote:
>
>   
>> I am trying to write RtL Hebrew in XeTeX (XeTeXk, Version  
>> 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)) using TexShop. Everything works  
>> fine, except the Hebrew diacritic signs do not display properly  
>> using SBL Hebrew but work fine using Cardo.
>>     
>
> For Hebrew OpenType fonts, you need to use the "script=hebr" tag when  
> loading the font; e.g.,
>
>    \font\H = "SBLHebrew:script=hebr" at 16pt
>
> to activate the right script-specific OpenType behavior.
>
> In xelatex, it's generally better to use fontspec than direct \font  
> declarations like this; with fontspec, you'd specify the  
> [Script=Hebrew] option:
>
>   

For proper bidirectional typesetting I would also recommend using the 
package bidi.

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