Hi Avraham, On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 08:36:06AM +0200, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > I met of late, problems with using, with Hebrew texts, some latex > commands which work perfectly in the context of English text. > The first one was some time ago, when trying to make the text flow > around an image (plain Latex). It warked smoothly with English text but > issued an error message when the same commands were used with Hebrew text. > I do not recall the exact error message. > Lately, I tried to superpose text on a semitransparent image, using the > eso-pic and transparent packages (pdflatex): Worked smoothly with English > text, but with Hebrew I got the following error message: > > pdfTeX warning: pdflatex: \pdfrestore: missing \pdfsave > > !pdfTeX error: pdflatex: 1 unmatched \pdfsave after page shipout > ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! > > shell returned 70 > > In an attempt to understand what is going on, I tried to define English as > the first language and put in some English text, before the Hebrew one. It > worked allright, as long there was enough English text to cover the first > page, on which the image appears, but balked, when this was too short. > > One can, of course, achieve the desired result, by combining two pdfs, > but I would like to understand the problem -any references are welcome-. I > would also like to know if there is any workaround within latex. > Are there any good text or other references about latex in Hebrew?
Have you tried using xetex (xelatex)? I wasn't able to get working Hebrew from ptflatex. xelatex works quite well for me. baruch -- http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - bar...@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il