An update of the Makor package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next few days.
Thanks for the material, Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.
Name of contribution: Makor, version 1.0 Author's name: Alan Hoenig Location on CTAN: language/hebrew/makor Summary description: A system for typesetting Hebrew with TeX License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Makor is my system for typesetting Hebrew with TeX. It uses an intuitive interface---that is, you type characters on the English keyboard according to more-or-less what they sound like, and Makor renders them in proper Hebrew, both with and without vowels (nekudot). The vowels are properly centered on their letters, and final letters are selected automatically by Makor+TeX. This package works with both plain TeX and LaTeX.
This new version is formally version~1.0. In addition to many bug fixes, the new version includes:
* support of many more fonts: -- OmegaSerifHebrew, which is like David or David light; -- Ezra (in regular, italic, bold, bold italic, and outline variants); -- Rashi (regular and bold); and -- Hadassah (regular, italic, bold, and bold italic);
* ability to typeset numbers properly amid Hebrew text;
* special typesetting treatment of the defective cholem;
* Hebrew table macros---you enter the columns left-to-right, and Makor typesets them right-to-left; and
* much, much more!
The package is documented in the file makorman.tex. Please check out the file makorman.pdf which is replete with examples to see if this package might be of interest to you.