> I've got two Russian Israeli families boarding at my place.

"Russian Israeli"? Which one?

> I'm wondering if anyone has success with getting Russian and/or Hebrew fonts 

The Russian is trivial, it's called Cyrillic and generally works by
replacing a Western font with a Cyrillic one in any word processor. It's
installed for X11 and tetex/latex out of the box (though I can't say I
tried).

The Hebrew is much more of a pain, as it's not only written right-to-left,
but also suffers from excessive accentitis (and you thought German was bad -
ha, just tells you Americans/Kiwis how little you know :) ) and versionitis.
There's at least old and new Hebrew, and so on (not that I really know
either). TeX/LaTeX can handle one accent tacked on top or underneath without
trouble, other positions are possible, with 2 accents you can do it but
happy hacking, 3 and more are going to cost you some weeks at least.

I am certain there is Hebrew support for LaTeX, CTAN is your friend. Ok I
checked, there is hebrew mentioned in babel. It won't work with TeX as that
doesn't support right-to-left, you need omegea or some such for it. There's
an extensive 00readme.heb.

> Volker mentioned SuSE 8.0 recently. Would support be there out-of-the-box?

Yes, looks like it. SuSE hasn't shipped the .dtx documentation files for a
while as far as I can make out (probably space constraints, afterall 7 CDs
isn't that much), but they're there in dvi form.

> Do either KWord or Abiword support right-to-left?

I really doubt it. Check staroffice.

Volker

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