Date:         Sun, 2 Nov 2003 14:53:03 +0200
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From:         Tzafrir Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      ivritex 1.2 RC: take 2
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Hi

An upcoming version of ivritex -- The Hebrew LaTeX Support Package is
about to be released. As usual I'd like to give it some more minimal
testing before I post it as an official release on SourceForge.

This is yet another

Major changes:

* Added support for culmus fonts
* That support uses the encoding HE8 (basically CP1255) rather than the
  7bit LHE
* original hebfonts no longer distributed in the "binary" distribution
* Initial support for prosper was added to hebclass
* bug fixes

Packages are currently available at:

  http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/HebLatex/ivritex-1.2.tar.gz

    Source tarball


  http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/HebLatex/ivritex-1.2-dist.tar.gz

    Extracted installation dirs (extract on $TEXMF)


  http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/HebLatex/ivritex-1.2-3.noarch.rpm
  http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/HebLatex/ivritex-doc-1.2-3.noarch.rpm

(note the modified URL)

    RPM packages of the distribution

Main issues:
* what will be the encoding
* xdvi doesn't work well (try example/tests/fonts.tex)
* How do I emulate bold-italic on david?
* should I emulate bold ("bolder") on fonts that only offer a bold typeface?

The rpm package is now considerbly larger as he culmus fonts are vopied,
rather than symlinked. This makes the rpm more "portable". If you
replackage it for a distro: make syre you symlink the fonts if size is a
concern. See the README for the technical details.

[quoting the previous message]
Regarding the prosper support: a prosper layout was added
(PPRheb-prosper.sty). Generally you should be able to use this style as
your prosper layout (add the option 'heb-prosper' to the class). Not well
tested yet.

In addition, an option 'prosper' was added to the class 'iitsmnr'. See the
sample iitsmnr.tex (This one was tested).

Generally prosper has quite a few postscript issues (postscript is
rendered after the bidi rendering of latex). And in addition hyperref is
just as aggresive as rlbabel in overriding macros. Often the same macros.
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--
Tzafrir Cohen
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