On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 01:19:13PM -0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2019-08-25, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > ... > > ... Now all five Hebrew pdf3 tests pass. I still don't > > understand why there is not a TeX Live script that takes care of this, > > The Culmus package is not on CTAN and not in TeXLive. (Before considering > inclusion, the current method of providing their own version of files > without name change would need to be fixed.)
Ah that makes sense. > > but I am guessing no Hebrew users actually export with dvipdfmx. Still > > good to have the tests working though. > > > Günter, do you have an idea of whether Hebrew users would actually use > > this "fix"? The reason I ask is that I'm wondering whether to automate > > your and Kornel's commands in install-tl-ubuntu (with the --hebrew > > option), which people actually use, or alternatively just in lyx-tester > > which no one uses? > > Hard to tell. I suppose most users requiring Hebrew support switched to > Xe-/LuaTeX. At least this might explain the bad state of Hebrew support > on 8-bit. I proposed a new version for babel-hebrew (including support > for Hebrew with standard inputenc's "utf8") this spring but did not get > an answer, so maybe this package is up for adoption. > > In this regard, the situation is similar to Greek -- most people using > (modern) Greek do this with Unicode fonts. There is still a number of > people that still use 8-bit TeX for various reasons and might gain from > 8-bit Hebrew that "just works" (even if there will inevitably be limitations). Thanks for the explanation! Scott
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