[XeTeX] Hebrew with XeTeX

[Sven Siegmund]

Hi, I don't know Hebrew either, but I know the script from some
Aramaic lessons I took. I cannot see anything uncanny in the PDF.
Couldn't it be due to an old Acrobat reader version? I have 8.1.1 and
everything seems allright.

S.


2008/2/18, Erwin Ochsenmeier <ochsenmeier at yahoo.com>:
> I am still having problems with some Hebrew fonts
> using Xetex. The included pdf file was created with
> the following code. The Heb. is fine in EzraSIL but
> not in SBLHebrew or Cardo (look first line fifth word
> from the right).
> I tried without bidi or memoir but the result is the
> same.
>
> %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>
> \documentclass[12pt,article]{memoir}
> \TeXXeTstate=1
> \usepackage{fontspec,xunicode,xltxtra}
> \usepackage{pdfsync}
>
> \usepackage{bidi}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Scale=2}
> \setmainfont[Scale=1]{Hoefler Text}
>
> \newfontfamily{\sbl}[Script=Hebrew]{SBLHebrew}
> \newfontfamily{\car}[Script=Hebrew]{Cardo}
> \newfontfamily{\ez}[Script=Hebrew]{EzraSIL}
>
> \title{Your Title}
> \author{Your Name}
> \date{}
>
> \begin{document}
> \maketitle
>
> SBL
>
> \begin{quote}
> \setRL
> {\sblHebrew text
> }
> \setLR
> \end{quote}
>
> elo
>
>
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