Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ missing characters on Hebrew/Mac

[ggran]

Hey All,
I'm trying to write a Hebrew document using unicode (UTF8) encoding, on a Mac machine,
using babel and IvritTex packages.

A typical paper looks like:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ucs}  
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{hebfont}
\usepackage[hebrew,english]{babel}

\begin{document}
%some English 
Hello World!

%some Hebrew text
\R{שלום עולם}   % using unicode rather than apple native encoding

\end{document}

The problem:
Everything works great, but the hyphen sign ("-") is omitted from hebrew text.
For instance, the code

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aaa-bbb
\R{אאא-בבב}

produces

aaa-bbb
אאאבבב

Any suggestions?

thanks...

[ggran]

Checking the log files, I see the following lines

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Missing character: There is no - in font david!
Missing character: There is no ' in font david!
Missing character: There is no - in font david!

Which is weird. Maybe a mapping should be fixed?

[localghost]

Typesetting multilingual documents with babel, you have to switch to the language you want to write in. The last option to babel specifies the default language for the whole document. Switching to Hebrew works for your example as follows.

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\selectlanguage{hebrew}

Refer to the babel manual for more information. You can call it on the command prompt of your system.

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texdoc babel

Best regards
Thorsten¹