Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

> Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
>> On 12/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> It means that the jesus font (an hebraic font) is unavailable on your
>>> system. I guess that you have to install the hebrew package on your
>>> latex distribution to get a set of hebrew fonts.
>> 
>> I just installed ivritex-dist
>> (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ivritex/ivritex-1.2.1-dist.tar.gz by
>> copying its contents into ~/Library/texmf) and now the error isn't
>> displayed, but all Hebrew text appears blank in the output file, be it
>> DVI or PDF (English text appears fine).
>> 
Copying the files is not enough. In LaTeX, you have to install the fonts by
running several commands that may vary depending on your LaTeX
distribution. Read the documentation.

>> I know this isn't a LyX issue, but could you help me anyway, or at
>> least point me somewhere where I could get help?
There is an English speaking Hebrew latex mailing list
http://listserv.tau.ac.il/archives/ivritex.html

>> 
>> On a related note, don't you guys think that an application should
>> work out of the box, without having to go hunt around the internet for
>> packages and such?

Use Linux. On Linux, it is rather simple because Linux distributions have
good package facilities. On MacOSX and Windows, you are in the blue.
Creating a cross-platform package infrastructure is something very hard
that has little chance to happen.


Charles
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