Status of babel-hebrew

[Udi-Fogiel]

Sorry for not doing much maintenance on it, pdfTeX is a bit low priority for me with Hebrew, and the .ini file works great with the unicode engines.

Now that the fonts and encodings are handled elsewhere (as they should be), the main thing left is rlbabel.def (RTL support in pdfTeX) and the language definition file.

As for the rlbabel.def, I once wanted to add as much support as bidi, and because XeTeX and pdfTeX has the same algorithm for bidi support, I thought collaboration with bidi will do, sadly that will probably won't happen. I'll still fix some bugs, but probably not add new features as I don't want to basically duplicate bidi.

As for the language definition file, babel has pretty much every needed feature in the .ini file I think, and if not I would rather add it there instead of the .ldf file.

Any thoughts? Are there any features that should be implemented in the .ldf file?

[jbezos]

@Udi-Fogiel tbh, I don't think it's worth dedicating much time to supporting pdftex (or even xetex) with the ldf file, beyond fixing bugs. I think it might be more worthwhile to improve Hebrew with the ini mechanism.

[Udi-Fogiel]

I'm glad to hear that :) I'll add a note about it in the manual in the next release. Thanks!