Installing hebrew (culmus) on Mac using TexLive

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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
    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 The script seems to be outdated in so many ways...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
    
  • jvriesem
    jvriesem over 9 years
    Thanks for your work! Unfortunately, that site doesn't solve the issue of installing on Mac.
  • jvriesem
    jvriesem over 9 years
    Note 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.
  • user1071136
    user1071136 over 9 years
    @jvriesem - What did you have to change to get it working?
  • Guy
    Guy over 9 years
    I believe that following the instructions for Linux will probably work for Mac as well.
  • jvriesem
    jvriesem over 9 years
    I never did get it working. I imagine it's possible, but the instructions given were not enough to make it work.
  • user1071136
    user1071136 over 9 years
    Which step failed, if any?
  • jvriesem
    jvriesem over 9 years
    Shoot -- 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! :(
  • Peter Flynn
    Peter Flynn over 6 years
    Well, first off, that URI is dead already. I found the file at archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/ivritex/…