Questions tagged [hebrew]
{hebrew} is about authoring and compiling TeX documents with Hebrew (and/or Yiddish) language content.
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In Luatex Hebrew text not working after update miktex (april 13 2026)
After updating miktex today I get the message
Undefined control sequence. \mathemptydisplaymode in the luabidi.sty.
I removed miktex completely and installed it, the same result.
Could you please ...
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reledmac: How to make footnotes RTL (Hebrew) while preserving page splitting?
I am typesetting a Hebrew book using XeLaTeX with reledmac (multiple footnote series) and polyglossia+bidi for RTL support.
The Problem
I need footnotes to be:
Rendered Right-to-Left (Hebrew text)
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Is there a way to use more than 1 type of Blackboard font in a single document?
I am writing a Latex document using Lyx and am interested in using two different Blackboard fonts in my document. Ideally I would like to "borrow" an extra blackboard font from one of these (...
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Hebrew letters appear as rectangles in the title of a beamer-rl presentation when the `hebrew` option is specified for the `\babelfont` tag
The following beamer document
\documentclass[babel={provide=*,layout=graphics.tabular},english,hebrew]{beamer-rl}
\babelfont{sf}{FreeSans}
\title{אבג}
\begin{document}
\frame{\titlepage}
\end{document}...
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Hebrew letters appear as rectangles in the title of a beamer-rl presentation
I'm trying to compile a beamer document in Hebrew that I wrote several years ago, and that used to compile successfully with lualatex. The document and its preamble are very long, but I managed to cut ...
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The font "FreeSans" cannot be found
I'm trying to compile a LaTex document that I wrote several years ago, and that used to compile successfully with lualatex. The file and its preamble are very long, but I managed to cut them down to ...
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\ref to figure shows “??” (Hebrew/RTL, KOMA-Script, XeLaTeX) even after placing \caption before \label [closed]
When I use \ref to reference a figure, I keep getting question marks — even after several compilations.
The log shows:
LaTeX Warning: Reference `fig:caption2' on page 2 undefined on input line 236.
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How to use right-to-left alignment in drop caps in Context?
Problem
When trying to set up drop-cap for the first word of a paragraph, the characters do not maintain the right-to-left alignment.
Questions
How do you align Right-to-Left in the setupintial ...
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changing the \mathrm{} command font to a certain roman type Palatino font
I am writing Latex documents using Lyx and am interested in using the following Palatino type roman font In my document.
Mainly I aim to change my document's \mathrm{} font to match the one in the ...
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why I'm getting an empty box instead of the Hebrew numeral; I want XeTeX not LuaLaTex, this is how my question is different [duplicate]
why I'm getting an empty box instead of the Hebrew numeral. I need a code in XeTeX.
Some numerals appear correctly but not all.
\documentclass[landscape,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\...
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the Hebrew numeral doesn't print
I'm getting an empty square instead of the Hebrew numeral. Why ? Please see the square above the page number 5.
\documentclass[landscape,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{pgfmath}
%...
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the Hebrew numerical system
How can I print in XeTeX the entire Hebrew numerical system like the one example below ?
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Using Palatino font (for math-mode) in documents containing right to left languages (in Lyx)
recently I came across these lecture notes that (I think) are written using the beautiful Palatino font. With a quick google search I have found out that there are two packages one can include to be ...
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Creating a table in XeLaTeX in a Hebrew document
I'm compiling a document completely in Hebrew using XeLaTeX, but I'm having an issue creating a table: using polyglossia, the columns just don't compile...it just gives a string of words. How can I go ...
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Colored hebrew vowels in Xelatex
I'm using xelatex to write some grammatical remarks of biblical Hebrew. I need a different color for some vowels, for example, to illustrate some suffixes. I can't get a correct position of vowel when ...
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