[tex-live] Install TeX Live 20130914 failed
Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Tue Sep 17 14:15:43 CEST 2013
Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org> wrote:
> I think Babel Hebrew is hopelessly broken for pdfTeX and other 8-bit
> engines. The fonts it looks for don't seem to be available any more, on
> CTAN or elsewhere (I investigated this a few months ago). Philip,
> however, is using XeTeX, and is not even using Babel at all from what I
> understand, so his problem is different.
there are a few hebrew metafonts on ctan, and (i think) one type 1. at
least one isn't available to tex live, for licence reasons.
> I don't think it makes much sense to try and fix Babel for 8-bit TeX
> engines; XeTeX and, to a great extent, LuaTeX, do a great job for Hebrew
> and that's what people seem to actually be using.
but [xe/lua]tex users are still bitten by the lack of hyphenation
patterns, surely?
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