Thanks a lot for all your hints!
However, when I tried Kirk's example (see below) I noticed that bib
wasn't yet installed. After installing bidi it complained that iftex.sty
was not available. But after installing iftex I got the following error
message:
! Package bidi Error: TeX engines other than XeTeX and LuaTeX are not
yet supported.
I am attaching the logfile.
Thanks for any help!
Carsten
Am Montag, den 23.08.2010, 15:46 -0400 schrieb Kirk Lowery:
> 2010/8/23 Carsten Ziegert <carsten_zieg...@sil.org>
> Hi,
>
> I am facing a problems with hebrew vowels while trying three
> different
> fonts (see example file):
>
> With SBL Hebrew and Ezra SIL, the vowels are too much on the
> left under
> the consonants.
> Cardo seems ok, except for shureq (leftmost letter of the
> third and
> fourth word from the left). The point is on the right hand
> side of the
> Waw consonant instead of on the left.
>
> System specs: Ubuntu Karmic, fontspec 2010/08/01 v2.0c,
> XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch2 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>
> What can I do to achieve the correct vowel adjustment? Does
> anyone have
> experiences with fonts for Biblical Hebrew?
>
> Doing cantillated Hebrew is my day job. And I use XeLaTeX as my
> preferred system for academic publishing.
>
> I modified your minimal example to contrast the two methods. Note the
> differences in the prologue. SBL Hebrew comes out right, SIL Ezra does
> not (no disparagement of SIL Ezra!).
>
> \documentclass{scrbook}
> \usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode,bidi}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{TeX Gyre Schola}
> %Set up for Biblical Hebrew
> \TeXXeTstate=1
> \newfontfamily{\sbl}[Script=Hebrew]{SBL Hebrew}
>
>
> \begin{document}
> %
> \section*{SBL Hebrew}
> \RL{\sbl{הָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ}}
> \section*{Ezra SIL}
> \newcommand{\heb}[1]{\TeXXeTstate=1{\fontspec{Ezra
> SIL}\beginR{#1}\endR}}
> \heb{וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ}
> \end{document}
>
> Others here can no doubt explain the technical reasons why the first
> example works and the second does not.
>
> --
> Blessings,
>
> Kirk
> --
> Kirk E. Lowery, PhD
> President & Senior Research Fellow
> The J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research
> http://www.GrovesCenter.org/blogs/kirk
> --
> $DO || ! $DO ; try
> try: command not found
>
>
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