Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-02 Thread Miki Dovrat
After some more reading in forums I found (and understood, or not) the following: The babel package contains the font encodings and metrics and definitions needed to use the Culmus fonts, but not the fonts themselves, which today are readily availabe for linux and Windows. Latex CANNOT have fo

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-02 Thread Dov Feldstern
Hi! You should also check out this package: http://nikud.berlios.de/ . It is mainly for using nikud, but as a side effect it also uses the culmus fonts. It's also really simple to use --- after the initial setup (explained on the site), all you need to do is use the culmus package instead of

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
I actually got it working I feel I am stating the obvious to the Hebrew users who already KNOW the answer and didn't have time to respond. There is a package called "hebfont.sty", written by Boris Lavva, which has created macros to use all the hebrew fonts (culmus, and the old default ones

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
I am a Hebrew user, and I know how to use the "default" Hebrew font, which I guess comes from the culmus package (ivritex on linux), but that package contains many other fonts (according to the culmus site) which I would like to use, and I don't know how to get lyx or latex to use them. You can

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Miki Dovrat wrote: > A question for the Hebrew users of lyx/latex. > > How do I change the font of the entire document? > > The lyx editor allows only to mark some text as belonging to a different > font family (sans serif, typewriter), but I don't know which Hebrew fonts > these are (although t