[XeTeX] Hebrew with XeTeX

[Erwin Ochsenmeier]

Thanks for the tips. It worked great.

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> (Volker Jordan)
>    2. Re: Identity-H encoding ExternalLocation
> xdvipdfmx (Jonathan Kew)
>    3. Re: Hebrew in Xetex (Jonathan Kew)
>    4. Re: Hebrew in Xetex (Fran?ois Charette)
>    5. Re: Conflict between xunicode and fontspec?
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:43:35 +0100
> From: Volker Jordan <v_jordan at web.de>
> Subject: [XeTeX] Identity-H encoding
> ExternalLocation xdvipdfmx
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> Hi,
> 
> is is possible to use another encoding for fonts
> that have been loaded
> with fontspec and ExternalLocation ?
> 
> xdvpdfmx always uses Identity-H, which causes
> problems while printing on
> old postscript printers.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Volker Jordan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:30:11 +0000
> From: Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Identity-H encoding
> ExternalLocation xdvipdfmx
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other
> platforms <xetex at tug.org>
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> On 6 Feb 2008, at 12:43 pm, Volker Jordan wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > is is possible to use another encoding for fonts
> that have been loaded
> > with fontspec and ExternalLocation ?
> >
> > xdvpdfmx always uses Identity-H, which causes
> problems while  
> > printing on
> > old postscript printers.
> 
> To support anything else, someone would have to
> extend xdvipdfmx to  
> map from glyph codes (which xetex generates) back to
> characters in  
> some known encoding -- assuming there is one that
> supports all the  
> glyphs used in a particular document, which isn't
> always the case  
> when using complex OpenType fonts -- and then write
> the PDF using  
> that encoding instead of Identity.
> 
> IOW, there's not currently any way to do this; it
> would require  
> programming work.
> 
> Is it possible to post-process the PDF and turn it
> into Level 1  
> PostScript or something? Maybe Ghostscript could do
> this. Would that  
> help with your font problems? (I haven't ever
> encountered such issues  
> myself, so don't know much about it.)
> 
> JK
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:38:43 +0000
> From: Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Hebrew in Xetex
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other
> platforms <xetex at tug.org>
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> 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:
> 
>    \newfontfamily{\sbl}[Script=Hebrew]{SBLHebrew}
> 
> (see the fontspec documentation).
> 
> JK
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:44:45 +0100
> From: Fran?ois Charette <firmicus at ankabut.net>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Hebrew in Xetex
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other
> platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Message-ID: <47AA0E2D.3040000 at ankabut.net>
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> format=flowed
> 
> Jonathan Kew a ?crit :
> > 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
> 
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