Hebrew
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The Hebrew language is available for pdftex, xetex, and luatex, but the
preferred engine is the latter, because of its unique features for
bidirectional texts, not requiring explicit mark up.
There is a complete example (with a table, a footnote, maths, etc.) in the repository (tex, pdf).
Justification
Hebrew justification frequently utilizes subtle variations in the spacing between individual letters within words. This can be achieved by inserting tiny amounts of extra space between letter combinations.
The transform justification.interletter in all locales in the Hebrew
script (Hebrew, Ancient Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish) activates this kind of
justification.
pdflatex
For pdftex you may need to install separately the culmus
package, which is absent
in some TeX distributions. It’s available in Overleaf and, as
of August 2023, included in TeXLive.
Useful links
- Tables with Hebrew text using babel
- Hebrew name typesetting
- Help getting started with Hebrew in babel
- Why aren’t dageshes aligned in Hebrew in LuaLaTex?
- Writing Biblical Hebrew texts with different coloring for consonants, vowel and accent signs
- Dagesh … coloured independently of the Hebrew letter in LuaLaTeX