Some problems with latex + Hebrew

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Avraham,

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 08:36:06AM +0200, Avraham Rosenberg wrote:
>    I met of late,  problems with using, with Hebrew texts, some latex 
>    commands which work perfectly in the context of English text.
>    The first one was some time ago, when trying to make the text flow
> around an image (plain Latex). It warked smoothly with English text but
> issued an error message when the same commands were used with Hebrew text.
> I do not recall the exact error message.
>    Lately, I tried to superpose text on a semitransparent image, using the
> eso-pic and transparent packages (pdflatex): Worked smoothly with English
> text, but with Hebrew I got the following error message:
> 
> pdfTeX warning: pdflatex: \pdfrestore: missing \pdfsave
> 
> !pdfTeX error: pdflatex: 1 unmatched \pdfsave after page shipout
>  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> 
> shell returned 70
> 
> In an attempt to understand what is going on, I tried to define English as
> the first language and put in some English text, before the Hebrew one. It
> worked allright, as long there was enough English text to cover the first
> page, on which the image appears, but balked, when this was too short.
> 
>    One can, of course, achieve the desired result, by combining two pdfs,
> but I would like to understand the problem -any references are welcome-. I
> would also like to know if there is any workaround within latex.
>    Are there any good text or other references about latex in Hebrew?

Have you tried using xetex (xelatex)? I wasn't able to get working Hebrew from 
ptflatex. xelatex works quite well for me.

baruch

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