Hi tetex-Team, Hi Baruch!
@Baruch: I'm also sending this to you because the hebrew changes to
ivritex, tetex-bin and latex-ucs also involve you. Please look at bug
#220869 before reading this. Thanks!
On 2003-11-15 13:26 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de> schrieb:
>
> > I don't know much about babel and ivritex. It seems that babel should
> > be updated to include the new lheenc.def to work even without ivritex.
> >
> > What do you think about that?
>
> It sounds like a good solution. Anyway, it's a problem that should also
> be fixed upstream. In order to contact the babel developers and not
> annoying them, we need a small test file that reproduces the
> problem. Could you provide that?
I asked the original submitter, but in the meanwhile I produced one
myself. I output two alefs, once with the proper char and one with the
\hebalef command:
------ snip (hebtest.tex) ----------
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[8859-8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[hebrew]{babel}
\begin{document}
à -- \hebalef\\
\end{document}
------ snip (hebtest.tex) ----------
The accented a is dec 224 and stands for alef in iso-8859-8. This
works when ivritex is installed, but fails if not. In the latter case
\hebalef is an unknown command, the current babel defines that as
\alef (ivritex diverts lheenc.def to provide the new command names).
I also prepared an unicode version of this example which I will use to
test my fix to latex-ucs. But before I do that I would like to make
sure that the \heb-prefixed commands are really the ones that should
be used from now on and that all packages will become consistent.
Thanks in advance and have a nice day!
Martin
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