[Tex/LaTex] different lang, write only right to left

hebrewlyxright-to-left

I am using LYX.

when I am writing a file in lyx that combines hebrew(RTL) and english(LTR)
sometimes I write lines that start in english word this line and only this line that starts with english word start in the left. The problem is that I want all my file to be RTL. it appears when I use section/subsection/regular…

how can I put all the lines in the right and don't matter which lang I use??

My problem is not put all the section in right. if I right only in english and I put it on the right using the paragraph setting it is ok. the problem is when I want to start the section with english word and then write in hebrew and all the section align to right.

I want the word description in this image to be above the right "תיאור"
word… (not reverse the words..)

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Thanks.

edit – this is all the file for the image.

  %% LyX 2.1.3 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\RequirePackage{fix-cm}
\documentclass[english,hebrew]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9,cp1255]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,tmargin=1cm,bmargin=2cm,lmargin=1cm,rmargin=1cm}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}

\makeatletter
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{theorem}
\theorembodyfont{\upshape}
\newtheorem{theorem}{\R{îùôè}}[section]
\AtBeginDocument{\make@lr\thetheorem}

% The following chunk fixes export with XeTeX.
% It is needed because polyglossia is used by default
% and \make@lr is only defined by babel.
\@ifundefined{make@lr}
{\def\make@lr#1{\begingroup
    \toks@=\expandafter{#1}%
    \edef\x{\endgroup
  \def\noexpand#1{\noexpand\@number{\the\toks@}}}%
  \x}}{\relax}

\@ifundefined{date}{}{\date{}}
\makeatother

\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{description}
\item [{רואית}] הלימ הלימ
\selectlanguage{english}%
\item [{\inputencoding{latin9}description}] \inputencoding{cp1255}\R{הלימ
הלימ הלימ}\selectlanguage{hebrew}%
\end{description}

\end{document}

if I remove the \selectlanguage{english}% the item goes to the correct place but the english text is like a mirror view.

Best Answer

It is much easier to typeset languages such as Hebrew with one of the newer TeX engines because you have access to fontspec, polyglossia, bidi... and so on.

Here's the output I think you want:

RTL with English tag

Here's my code, which has to be compiled with XeLaTeX:

\documentclass{article}% egreg's preamble from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/139006/
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{hebrew}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\setmainfont{Pfennig}
\newfontfamily{\hebrewfont}{Pfennig}

\begin{document}
  \begin{description}
    \item [\textenglish{description-}] {מילה מילה מילה}
    \item [{תיאור }] מילה מילה מילה
  \end{description}
\end{document}

This is based on egreg's answer.

LyX can be configured to use XeTeX as an engine according to its documentation. Instructions are available on the LyX wiki.

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