A fix for a couple of bugs in hebrew numerals

[Udi-Fogiel]

Consider the following:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[bidi=basic, hebrew, provide=*]{babel}

\babelfont{rm}{David CLM}

\begin{document}
\localenumeral{letters.gershayim}{12}
\localenumeral{letters.final}{12}
\localenumeral{letters.plain}{12}

\edef\foo{\localenumeral{letters.gershayim}{12}}\show\foo

\edef\foo{\localenumeral{letters.final}{12}}\show\foo

\edef\foo{\localenumeral{letters.plain}{12}}\show\foo
\end{document}

It presents two problems

• notice that \foo is \relax, which means that \hebrew@num@nomil is not expandable. It was due missing terminating spaces after the \ifcase tests (they were there on purpues :-)
• letters.plain does not work, this is because the internal is named letters.long. I assumed that this is a typo and that the documentation is the correct one.

I was wondering why shouldn't these features be allowed in pdftex. I've noticed that the following (after the commits) produce an error

% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage[NHE8]{fontenc}
\usepackage[bidi=default,hebrew, provide=*]{babel}
% \let\gershayim\hebgershayim
\begin{document}
\localenumeral{letters.gershayim}{12}
\localenumeral{letters.final}{12}
\localenumeral{letters.plain}{12}

\edef\foo{\localenumeral{letters.gershayim}{12}}\show\foo

\edef\foo{\localenumeral{letters.final}{12}}\show\foo

\edef\foo{\localenumeral{letters.plain}{12}}\show\foo
\end{document}

this is due a bug in the encodings, I had a typo... It should be fixed in the following couple of days. In the meantime adding the line \let\gershayim\hebgershayim should fix the problem. If that was the reason for not including pdftex, I think it should be changed.

[jbezos]

• letters.plain does not work, this is because the internal is named letters.long. I assumed that this is a typo and that the documentation is the correct one.

Thanks. Correct, the name is letters.plain.