The installation is TeXLive on Ubuntu 12.04.
I've been using a variety of source files, some of them extremely simple. I can post if necessary, but thought it might be irrelevant given the seeming ubiquity of this error.
It's weird too because I had it working briefly (sort of), by deleting all the /emph modified Hebrew text. Then I kept screwing around with the installation and after that it stopped working again. What was I doing? Mostly tlmgr commands to update stuff. And fc commands like fc-cache -fv. Nothing else can think of.
I've wasted way too much time on this today. Any pointers or clues greately appreciated.
Anyways here's one source file:
% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[10pt]{article} % use larger type; default would be 10pt
%%% PAGE DIMENSIONS
\usepackage{geometry} % to change the page dimensions
\geometry{a4paper} % or letterpaper (US) or a5paper or....
\geometry{top=.75in, right=.5in,bottom=.5in, left=.5in} % for example, change the margins to 2 inches all round
%\geometry{landscape} % set up the page for landscape
%%% read geometry.pdf for detailed page layout information
%%%josh here: i've set these margins up for good 2 or 3 inch marginnotes.
%%% PACKAGES
\usepackage{endnotes}
\usepackage{graphicx} % support the \includegraphics command and options
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip} % Activate to begin paragraphs with an empty line rather than an indent
\usepackage{booktabs} % for much better looking tables
\usepackage{array} % for better arrays (eg matrices) in maths
\usepackage{paralist} % very flexible & customisable lists (eg. enumerate/itemize, etc.)
\usepackage{subfig} % make it possible to include more than one captioned figure/table in a single float
% These packages are all incorporated in the memoir class to one degree or another...
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % set input encoding (not needed with XeLaTeX)
\usepackage[hebrew,english]{babel}
%%% COMMANDS
\newcommand{\hebmy}[1]{\R{#1}}
\newcommand{\heb}[1]{\begin{small}\R{#1}\end{small}}
\newcommand{\hebt}[1]{\begin{scriptsize}\R{#1}\end{scriptsize}}
%%% HEADERS & FOOTERS
\usepackage{fancyhdr} % This should be set AFTER setting up the page geometry
\fancypagestyle{test}{\fancyhf{}%
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\thepage}%
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{test}%
\fancyfoot[R]{\scriptsize\today}
\renewcommand\headrulewidth{1pt}}
\pagestyle{fancy} % options: empty , plain , fancy
\headsep=.75in \textwidth=424pt \textheight=700pt
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % customise the layout...
\lhead{\tiny George Washington \#5 \\ Jerusalem \\ \hebmy{רח ג'ורג' וושינגטון 5} \\ \hebmy{ירושלים} \\ 94187}
\chead{Joshua Cullick \\ \hebmy{יהושוע קוליק}\\ \small joshua.cullick@gmail.com}
\rhead{\tiny Analysis \& \\ \emph{Intelligent} \\ Design}
\lfoot{\tiny \today}\cfoot{ }\rfoot{\tiny \thepage}
%% SECTION TITLE APPEARANCE
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage{lineno}
\usepackage{multicol}
\allsectionsfont{\sffamily\mdseries\upshape} % (See the fntguide.pdf for font help)
% (This matches ConTeXt defaults)
%%% ToC (table of contents) APPEARANCE
\usepackage[nottoc,notlof,notlot]{tocbibind} % Put the bibliography in the ToC
\usepackage[titles,subfigure]{tocloft} % Alter the style of the Table of Contents
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\renewcommand{\cftsecfont}{\rmfamily\mdseries\upshape}
\renewcommand{\cftsecpagefont}{\rmfamily\mdseries\upshape} % No bold!
%%%josh here, trying to reduce whitespace between sections, below
\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{*0}{*0}
\titlespacing{\subsection}{0pt}{*0}{*0}
\titlespacing{\subsubsection}{0pt}{*0}{*0}
%%% END Article customizations
%%% The "real" document content comes below...
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\date{\today} % Activate to display a given date or no date (if empty),
% otherwise the current date is printed
\begin{document}
Hello my name is \hebmy {יהושוע קוליק}
\end{document}
This is my BASH log trying to compile:
{LID: command not found
suwylie@wylie-ThinkPad-X61-Tablet:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for wylie:
root@wylie-ThinkPad-X61-Tablet:/home/wylie# gedit
root@wylie-ThinkPad-X61-Tablet:/home/wylie# updmap-sys --syncwithtrees
Config file: "/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg"
root@wylie-ThinkPad-X61-Tablet:/home/wylie# cd Desktop/
root@wylie-ThinkPad-X61-Tablet:/home/wylie/Desktop# cd texpad/
root@wylie-ThinkPad-X61-Tablet:/home/wylie/Desktop/texpad# pdflatex 20_June_sample.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./20_June_sample.tex
LaTeX2e
Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman-x-2011-07-01, ngerman-x-2011-07-01, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabi
c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danis
h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, ethiopic, farsi, finnis
h, french, friulan, galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, h
ungarian, icelandic, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, ma
rathi, oriya, panjabi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian,
kurmanji, lao, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nyn
orsk, polish, portuguese, romanian, romansh, russian, sanskrit, serbian, serbia
nc, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorb
ian, welsh, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
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(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
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(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty))
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/endnotes/endnotes.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
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(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/parskip/parskip.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/booktabs/booktabs.sty)
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(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/paralist/paralist.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/subfig/subfig.sty
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(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/caption/caption3.sty)))
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
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(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
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(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/hebrew.ldf
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel) the language `Hebrew'
(babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.
) (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf))
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/lheenc.def)
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sectsty/sectsty.sty
LaTeX Warning: Command \underline has changed.
Check if current package is valid.
) (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lineno/lineno.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/multicol.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tocbibind/tocbibind.sty
Package tocbibind Note: Using section or other style headings.
) (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tocloft/tocloft.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
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No file 20_June_sample.aux.
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/lhecmr.fd)
*geometry* driver: auto-detecting
*geometry* detected driver: pdftex
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[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
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Package caption Warning: \caption will not be redefined since it's already
(caption) redefined by a document class or package which is
(caption) unknown to the caption package.
See the caption package documentation for explanation.
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/ucsencs.def)
kpathsea: Running mktextfm jerus10
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input jerus10
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2011)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf jerus10
! I can't find file `jerus10'.
...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input jerus10
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input jerus10
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: jerus10.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input jerus10' failed to make jerus10.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font LHE/cmr/m/n/10=jerus10 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou
nd.
relax
l.78 ...y name is \hebmy {יהושוע קוליק}
I tried using a variety of source files, some of my own that I know had worked from my Window7 / MiKTeX installation, some of which I found online. The following source file I found online as an example of working with Hebrew in LaTeX:
Source file can be found at hebexample
for this particular file the BASH log looks like:
root@wylie-ThinkPad-X61-Tablet:/home/wylie/Desktop/texpad# pdflatex hebexample\ \(1\).tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./hebexample (1).tex
LaTeX2e
Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman-x-2011-07-01, ngerman-x-2011-07-01, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabi
c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danis
h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, ethiopic, farsi, finnis
h, french, friulan, galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, h
ungarian, icelandic, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, ma
rathi, oriya, panjabi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian,
kurmanji, lao, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nyn
orsk, polish, portuguese, romanian, romansh, russian, sanskrit, serbian, serbia
nc, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorb
ian, welsh, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/utf8x.def))
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/ucs.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/data/uni-global.def))
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/rlbabel.def)
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/hebrew.ldf
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel) the language `Hebrew'
(babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.
) (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf))
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/lheenc.def)
No file "hebexample (1)".aux.
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/lhecmr.fd)
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/ucsencs.def)
kpathsea: Running mktextfm deads10
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input deads10
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2011)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf deads10
! I can't find file `deads10'.
...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input deads10
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input deads10
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: deads10.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input deads10' failed to make deads10.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font LHE/cmr/bx/n/14.4=deads10 at 14.4pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not
found.
relax
l.10 ...�באה מכילה טקסט בעברית}}
? ^C! Interruption.
extract@font ...ont font@name external@font relax
font@name relax csname f@e...
l.10 ...�באה מכילה טקסט בעברית}}
? x
No pages of output.
Transcript written on "hebexample (1).log".
root@wylie-ThinkPad-X61-Tablet:/home/wylie/Desktop/texpad#
Best Answer
You are missing the default Ivritex fonts. You can try installing them from http://ivritex.sourceforge.net, but it's considered deprecated.
Preferably, you should install culmus-latex which provides a Hebrew support based on the Culmus fonts.