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HebrewOnLinux

Hebrew, LyX and Linux can work together.

How to do it properly

There are many tutorials, most of them are too old, about how to do that. Some of them cause Hebrew to work, but the generated documents are fuzzy, or just not pretty enough.

We recommend this way: (these are Ubuntu oriented instructions, but will probably work on Debian as well)

• First of all, do not install tetex, it is not maintained any more; install texlive instead.
• Trying to install ivritex package (as most tutorials suggest) will fail, because ivritex depends on tetex.
• Instead, install texlive-font-utils.
• Then, install culmus fonts (and other Hebrew fonts):

 $ sudo aptitude install culmus culmus-fancy xfonts-efont-unicode xfonts-efont-unicode-ib xfonts-intl-european msttcorefonts

• Then, install culmus-latex package, doing these steps:
  • Download it from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=33341
  • Extract it in some folder, and then execute (in that folder):

 $ make CULMUSDIR=/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/ TEXMFDIR=/usr/share/texmf-texlive/
 $ sudo make install CULMUSDIR=/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/ TEXMFDIR=/usr/share/texmf-texlive/

The last 2 commands are ubuntu 7.04/7.10-specific, but might work on other distros; if not, try to remove the CULMUSDIR=... (until the end of the line) and see if the make recognizes the right directories instead.

Now your Hebrew documents should look much better!

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Linux Hebrew