On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Johannes L. Braams wrote: > I am releived to finally be able to tell you that I have > finalized Babel release 3.7. > - Support for typesetting Hebrew (and potential support for > typesetting other rigth-to-left written languages) is now > available thanks to Rama Porrat and Boris Lavva. Hi, A few quick fixes: 1. There is a bug in rlbabel.def that causes problems when using underline in equations inside hebrew sections (note it was OK in $$ but not inside \[ \]). Fix: In Hebrew.dtx (line ~1847) change from \def\underline#1{\@@@underline{\if@rl\R{#1}\else #1\fi}} to \def\underline#1{\@@@underline{\ifmmode#1\else\if@rl\R{#1}\else #1\fi\fi}} 2. Defining the letter name "sin" conflicts with \TeX's math mode sine. Fix: in hebrew.fdd (line ~283) change from %<+LHEenc>\let\sin=\shin to %<+LHEenc>\let\HEBsin=\shin 3. Add a note to the docomuntation regarding the use of the oldjaf10.mf font: % % \item \textbf{oldjaf10.mf} % This font, used for |\emph| was not identifies as slanted. As a % result, a nested |\emph| had no effect (\LaTeX checks if the current % font is slanted or not, and toggles normal and slanted font) % A \emph{font\_slant} parameter should be added to \emph{oldjaf10.mf}, % it should look like: % \begin{verbatim} % font_quad 1em#; % font_slant 0.001pt#; %%#TK added to identify as slanted % font_normal_space 3.30033pt#; % font_normal_stretch 0.15em#; % font_normal_shrink 0.1em#; % font_x_height 3.30033pt#; % \end{verbatim} % The slant value is very small to ensure no influence on appearance. These are the fixes that has to do with Babel & Hebrew alone. I've found them about a year ago, when I prepared a distribution for the faculty (you can find it in http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/~tomer/TeX/). As far as I remember I emailed them to Boris at the time. There are many other patches/fixes that are needed if you want to use the Hebrew support AND hyperref, but I haven't updated it in the last half year or so, so it may not work with current versions of hyperref. I'll update it "sometime", when I have the time. Tomer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomer Kol Email: [log in to unmask] Electrical Engineering Dept. [log in to unmask] Technion - Israel Inst. of Technology [log in to unmask] Haifa 32000, ISRAEL