Installing hebrew (culmus) on Mac using TexLive
Solution 1
You should follow the instructions in: http://www.guyrutenberg.com/culmus-latex/
(I'm the author of culmus-latex)
Solution 2
First, you might get around this whole issue by using xelatex
, which supports system-wide fonts. If you use babel
with Hebrew you're probably out of luck, though - you will have to install the Hebrew fonts, including jerus10
, deads10
, etc.
The ivritex
project is dead, and the files from SourceForge do not contain the fonts (or at least, not a readily-used version of them). So let's get them from Debian.
A quick search found the ivritex Debian package. At the bottom, you can download the .deb
file, and see the list of files included in the package.
TL;DR
EDIT: The instructions are mostly for most Unix-like systems. But, the cp -r texmf ~/Library/
command is for OS X.
Fire up a terminal and hit
mkdir hebrew-fonts
cd hebrew-fonts
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/ivritex/ivritex_1.1.1-6_all.deb
ar -x ivritex_1.1.1-6_all.deb data.tar.gz
tar xfz data.tar.gz
cd usr/share
cp -r texmf ~/Library/
cd ../../..
rm -rf hebrew-fonts
Look at LaTeX, now look back at me. You now can compile Hebrew LaTeX.
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JohnRos
Updated on September 02, 2020Comments
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JohnRos about 3 years
I am trying to follow the instructions below in order to install hebrew to work with Latex on a mac (Lion) running TexLive. The script seems to be outdated in so many ways... Could someone help me to get the font installation process right?
Thank you in advance
#!/bin/bash mkdir tmp_latex_install cd tmp_latex_install # download culmus (fonts) and ivritex (latex support) wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/culmus/culmus-0.100-iso8859-8.tar.gz wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ivritex/culmus-latex-0.6.tar.gz # unzip tar zxvf culmus-0.100-iso8859-8.tar.gz tar zxvf culmus-latex-0.6.tar.gz # install culmus fonts mv ISO-8859-8 ~/Library/culmus-fonts/ #xset +fp $HOME/Library/culmus-fonts #xset fp rehash # install ivritex #mkdir -p $HOME/Library/texmf/ cd culmus-latex-0.6 #make TEXMFDIR=$HOME/Library/texmf/ CULMUSDIR=$HOME/Library/culmus-fonts #sudo make TEXMFDIR=$HOME/Library/texmf/ CULMUSDIR=$HOME/Library/culmus-fonts install cd ../.. rm -rf tmp_latex_install
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jvriesem over 9 yearsThanks for your work! Unfortunately, that site doesn't solve the issue of installing on Mac.
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jvriesem over 9 yearsNote for anyone who reads this post: the ivritex package nominally contains culmus. It does not seem to install it, however. These instructions did not work "out-of-the-box" for me.
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user1071136 over 9 years@jvriesem - What did you have to change to get it working?
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Guy over 9 yearsI believe that following the instructions for Linux will probably work for Mac as well.
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jvriesem over 9 yearsI never did get it working. I imagine it's possible, but the instructions given were not enough to make it work.
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user1071136 over 9 yearsWhich step failed, if any?
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jvriesem over 9 yearsShoot -- it was about 2.5 months ago, and I remember entirely giving up after that and some other failures. I wish I could remember, but it was too long ago and I don't remember the details. I do remember that it seemed to be a pretty complex failure -- not something trivial to fix -- which is a large part of why I gave up. Again, I'm sorry that this isn't more helpful! :(
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Peter Flynn over 6 yearsWell, first off, that URI is dead already. I found the file at archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/ivritex/…