Bug 57404 - elatex fails on hebrew documents
Summary: elatex fails on hebrew documents
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: tetex
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/system/patch...
Whiteboard:
: 65166 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-12-11 18:09 UTC by Tomas Winkler
Modified: 2013-07-02 22:55 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-05-04 07:29:23 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
patch to teTeX-texmf-gg-1.0.3.tar.bz2 (356 bytes, patch)
2001-12-11 18:12 UTC, Tomas Winkler
no flags Details | Diff
a tex file generated by lyx (544 bytes, text/plain)
2001-12-12 11:32 UTC, Tomas Winkler
no flags Details

Description Tomas Winkler 2001-12-11 18:09:29 UTC
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Description of problem:
elatex fials on hebrew tex docmuments becacuse of wrong line (70) in
texmf/tex/generic/babel/lheenc.def 
$</LHEenc>


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.myfile.tex
2.elatex myfile.tex

	

Actual Results:  ee the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.73 $
      </LHEenc>



Additional info:
The patch
--- texmf/tex/generic/babel/lheenc.def  Tue Dec 11 18:15:32 2001
+++ texmf/tex-huji/generic/babel/lheenc.def     Tue Dec 11 18:17:27 2001
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@
 \DeclareTextSymbol{\tav}{LHE}{122}
 \let\org@sin=\sin
 \def\sin{\ifmmode\org@sin\else\shin\fi}
-$</LHEenc>
 %%
 %% \CharacterTable
 %%  {Upper-case    \A\B\C\D\E\F\G\H\I\J\K\L\M\N\O\P\Q\R\S\T\U\V\W\X\Y\Z

Comment 1 Tomas Winkler 2001-12-11 18:12:55 UTC
Created attachment 40367 [details]
patch to teTeX-texmf-gg-1.0.3.tar.bz2

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2001-12-12 10:03:06 UTC
Please attach a hebrew document for regression testing.  Thanks.


Comment 3 Tomas Winkler 2001-12-12 11:32:26 UTC
Created attachment 40407 [details]
a tex file generated by lyx

Comment 4 Tomas Winkler 2001-12-12 11:42:57 UTC
Removing the line from the lheenc.def is not enough. To make it work I had to
also replace most of the hebrew font definiton files (*.fd) under
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/ at least I took them from mandrake 
tetex-latex-heb-1.0.2.rpm 
rpm -qip 
Name        : tetex-latex-heb              Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 1.0.2                             Vendor: MandrakeSoft
Release     : 2                             Build Date: Wed 28 Feb 2001 12:58:26
 AM IST
Install date: (not installed)               Build Host: canada1.technion.ac.il
Group       : Applications/Publishing       Source RPM: tetex-latex-heb-1.0.2-2.
src.rpm
Size        : 2201049                          License: distributable
Packager    : Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.il>
URL         : http://www.dsg.technion.ac.il/heblatex/
Summary     : Files for processing Hebrew LaTeX documents
Description :


Comment 5 Jindrich Novy 2005-05-04 07:29:23 UTC
Please file a new bug for this if the problem still persists in teTeX-3.0.

Thanks.

Comment 6 Jindrich Novy 2005-05-04 10:40:52 UTC
*** Bug 65166 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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