Package: lyx Version: 2.1.4-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
I'm not much of a LaTeX / LyX user myself anymore, but decided to report this following a discussion I had in a community forum recently. When I try to use Hebrew with LyX and can either: Use the default (pdflatex): In that case Hebrew support is through babel. The fonts it points to are a set of fonts not really available anywhere. At the time I packaged Hebrew support for babel that included usage of the culmus fonts. I guess some extra effort could be put into making the Culmus fonts the default ones (the originals were a set of low quality fonts of dubious legal status). Use xelatex: In that case Hebrew support is through polyglossia (and implicitly: bidi). Works generally better. However: * The LyX user interface still fails to "reverse" Hebrew. I would have expected a QT-based program to do that. This is an issue I would probably take upstream. * Debian comes with several good font sets that have a good coverage of Hebrew, as well as many other scripts (for instance: Deja-Vu). Yet, I need to explicitly set the serif font of the document in order for documents with Hebrew texts to render. Can't the default be changed? -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: armhf Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lyx depends on: ii libboost-regex1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-signals1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libc6 2.22-7 ii libenchant1c2a 1.6.0-11 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-14 ii libmagic1 1:5.25-2 ii libmythes-1.2-0 2:1.2.4-1 ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.7+dfsg-6+b1 ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.7+dfsg-6+b1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-14 ii lyx-common 2.1.4-2 ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages lyx recommends: ii atril [pdf-viewer] 1.12.2-1 ii dvipng 1.14-2+b2 ii elyxer 1.2.5-1 ii evince [pdf-viewer] 3.20.0-3 ii fonts-lyx 2.1.4-2 ii ghostscript 9.19~dfsg-1+b1 ii imagemagick 8:6.8.9.9-7+b2 ii poppler-utils 0.38.0-3 ii preview-latex-style 11.87-3+deb8u1 ii psutils 1.17.dfsg-2 ii tex4ht 20090611-3 ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2015.20160320-1 ii texlive-generic-extra 2015.20160320-1 ii texlive-generic-recommended 2015.20160320-1 ii texlive-latex-extra 2015.20160320-1 ii texlive-latex-recommended 2015.20160320-1 ii texlive-science 2015.20160320-1 Versions of packages lyx suggests: pn chktex <none> pn etoolbox <none> pn gnuhtml2latex <none> ii groff 1.22.3-7 ii inkscape 0.91-9 pn latex2rtf <none> ii librsvg2-bin 2.40.15-1 ii libtiff-tools 4.0.6-1 ii linuxdoc-tools 0.9.71-2 pn lyx-dbg <none> pn noweb <none> ii rcs 5.9.4-3 ii sgmltools-lite 3.0.3.0.cvs.20010909-19 ii texlive-latex-recommended [latex-xcolor] 2015.20160320-1 ii texlive-xetex 2015.20160320-1 pn writer2latex <none> pn wv <none> -- no debconf information
