English and Hebrew at the same file

Question

Im trying to use culmus to write in hebrew few words as following for example:

\documentclass[a4paper, 10pt]{article}

\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{culmus}
\usepackage[english,hebrew]{babel}
\begin{document} 


\title{Machine Learning}
\maketitle
שלום

\end{document}

However, the result shows that the english letters go from right to left.

Is there any way to fix it?

Thank you.

Are you using xetex and fontspec as your tags seem to imply? — Ulrike Fischer, Aug 10 '18 at 17:16
no, tried with them and it didnt work. tagged to obtain suggestions as I know it might work. — Ben, Aug 10 '18 at 17:17
You could try with babel and lualatex: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/434568/87678 — David Purton, Aug 11 '18 at 05:26
Or this answer shows you don't even have to mark up text now: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/442947/87678 — David Purton, Aug 11 '18 at 06:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 10 '18 at 19:42

1

There is an example in the babel doc, page 23, section 1.14 (selecting fonts)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[swedish,bidi=default]{babel}
\babelprovide[import=he]{hebrew}
\babelfont{rm}{FreeSerif}
\begin{document}
Svenska \foreignlanguage{hebrew}{...} svenska.
\end{document}

answered Aug 10 '18 at 19:42

Thorn

41

The main language should be last for babel so you have to change the 5th line : \usepackage[hebrew,english]{babel} – Thorn Aug 10 '18 at 19:49
Im getting some errors about "'bidi=default', either you have misspelled the (babel) key or there is a previous setting of 'babel'" is the error I get. – Ben Aug 11 '18 at 08:30
Which babel version do you have in your system ? – Thorn Aug 11 '18 at 08:44
from MiKTex Package Manager it says 3.9r – Ben Aug 11 '18 at 08:45
The last version is v3.22 (2018/06/05). Try to update your installation. – Thorn Aug 11 '18 at 08:51
Done, 'undefined control sequence \babelfont' – Ben Aug 11 '18 at 09:56

hilbert · Answer 2 · 2018-08-11T05:12:50.723

If you are amenable to using XeLaTeX as your compiler, you might try this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\setmainfont{FreeSans} % set font to something on your system that supports
% hebrew glyphs
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguages{hebrew}
\begin{document}
This is a test.

\texthebrew{בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ}
\end{document}

You will need to set your font as mentioned in the comment. A very readable serif font that supports Hebrew and others is Cardo: http://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html. Install as appropriate for your operating system.

English and Hebrew at the same file

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