October 1st, 1998 TeX--XeT for UNIX with Hebrew ============================= A CD ROM called TeX Live 3 is now being distributed by TUG, the TeX Users Group in the US. It can be bought via e-mail from tug@tug.org for a small sum of money. It is also available from me - that is, I lend a copy of the disk to TeX users. The disk contains a TeX/LaTeX distribution for UNIX, Windows 95, Amiga and NeXT systems, as well as for Macintosh, DOS and OS/2. For UNIX, this disk has a very important feature for us, as it contains, apart from the regular tex, another tex system called eTeX, which has extensions. The most important extension, for us at least, is the right-to-left extension. Until now, we (actually, Uri Feldman) did a manual editing of TeX source in order to insert the right-to-left addition. From now on, the addition lies within eTeX. Hence, eTeX is the TeX for right-to-left users of TeX from now on. eTeX is Extended TeX. The right-to-left extension included within e-TeX has been written by Peter Breitenlohner. He is the man to whom we have to thank for being able to work in Hebrew TeX/LaTeX. eTeX and other tex material can also be copied from one of the official tex archives - ftp.tex.ac.uk (England) or ftp.dante.de (Germany) or ctan.tug.org (USA) During October 1998 we will prepare copies of TeX Live 3 cdrom, and users will be able to borrow them and install TeX from them. You can also buy your own copy from tug@tug.org . Installing TeX on Unix ====================== Installation instructions for TeX from the CD come with the CD itself. You insert the CD Rom into the CD drive, mount the CD drive on your system, and type sh install-cd.sh or bsh install-cd.sh Then you follow the instructions on screen, change directories' names as well as other parameters according to your system requirements, and start the installations. Installation might take a few hours, depending on the number of packages you decide to install. A recommended installation will require around 300 MB of disk space. Read the instructions which appear on screen right after the installation is finished. You have to update your PATH variable and run texconfig init If you need the Hebrew addition, then, after the above installation is complete, follow the Hebrew Addition installation instructions, below. Hebrew Addition installation ============================ Based on instructions written by Uri Feldman Oct 26 1997 Note -- in the following text, "......." means the directory where tex has been installed. It is usually /usr/local, but not necessarily so. Installing Hebrew fonts: ======================= 1. Create a directory ...../texmf/fonts/source/public/hebrew If you want only the basic Hebrew fonts, copy into this directory the files deads10.mf DeadSea.mf jerus10.mf Jerusalem.mf oldjaf10.mf OldJaffa.mf telav10.mf TelAviv.mf DeadSea_newcode.mf Jerusalem_newcode.mf OldJaffa_newcode.mf TelAviv_newcode.mf These files are available in ftp://ftp.cc.huji.ac.il/tex/fonts/oldcode/mf and in ftp://ftp.cc.huji.ac.il/tex/fonts/newcode/mf If you want all the available Hebrew fonts, copy all the files from the above addresses (oldcode/mf, newcode/mf) 2. Execute mktexlsr 3. Edit ...../texmf/fontname/special.map and add: @c Hebrew fonts jerus10 public hebrew deads10 public hebrew telav10 public hebrew oldjaf10 public hebrew DeadSea public hebrew Jerusalem public hebrew OldJaffa public hebrew TelAviv public hebrew DeadSea_newcode public hebrew Jerusalem_newcode public hebrew OldJaffa_newcode public hebrew TelAviv_newcode public hebrew crml10 public hebrew crmlsl10 public hebrew fr public hebrew frbx public hebrew frsl public hebrew hclassic public hebrew hcaption public hebrew redis7 public hebrew redis8 public hebrew redis9 public hebrew redis10 public hebrew redis12 public hebrew redis17 public hebrew redisb10 public hebrew rediss8 public hebrew rediss9 public hebrew rediss10 public hebrew rediss12 public hebrew shold10 public hebrew shscr10 public hebrew shstk10 public hebrew frank_ru public hebrew frank_ruehl public hebrew redisbx10 public hebrew DeadSea_newcode public hebrew Jerusalem_newcode public hebrew OldJaffa_newcode public hebrew TelAviv_newcode public hebrew redis_newcode public hebrew redis10_newcode public hebrew redis12_newcode public hebrew redis17_newcode public hebrew redis8_newcode public hebrew redis9_newcode public hebrew redisbx10_newcode public hebrew rediss10_newcode public hebrew rediss12_newcode public hebrew rediss8_newcode public hebrew rediss9_newcode public hebrew ShalomOldStyle_pc public hebrew ShalomScript10_pc public hebrew ShalomStick_pc public hebrew Note -- If you have installed only the basic Hebrew fonts, you need to insert into special.map only first 13 lines of the list above. Installing macros files for working with TeX + Hebrew ===================================================== 1. Create a directory ....../texmf/tex/plain/hebrew 2. Copy the files from ftp://ftp.cc.huji.ac.il/tex/macros/tex_macros into this directory. 3. Execute mktexlsr Installing macros files for working with LaTeX2e + Hebrew ========================================================= 1. The Hebrew addition for LaTeX2e works with Babel 3.6j However, Babel's version on the CD is 3.6 . in order to have Babel version 3.6j, get the three files babel.sty babel.def hebrew.sty from ftp://ftp.cc.huji.ac.il/tex/macros/latex_macros/babel and insert them (replace existing files) in ..../texmf/tex/latex/babel 2. Create a directory ..../texmf/tex/latex/babel/hebrew Copy into this directory all the files from ftp://ftp.cc.huji.ac.il/tex/macros/latex_macros 3. Execute mktexlsr Activation of TeX, LaTeX ======================== The regular TeX is activated by tex The regular latex is activated by latex The Hebrew (right to left) TeX is activated by etex The Hebrew (right to left) latex is activayed by elatex Examples for the Hebrew latex can be found in ftp://ftp.cc.huji.ac.il/tex/latex_examples Examples for the Hebrew tex can be found in ftp://ftp.cc.huji.ac.il/tex/tex_examples ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More information - from Rama Porrat, Tel 02-6584408, rama@cc.huji.ac.il