Thank you I have changed the font and it worked quite well :) On Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 2:08:20 AM UTC+3, Joost wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 10 2016, Gilco wrote: > > I have read thoroughly the Pandoc user's guide, > > and focused on the language variables, have set the relevant variables: > > > > pandoc --variable=title:"my example" *--variable=dir:rtl* hebrew.txt > > --latex-engine=xelatex -o hebrew.pdf > > > > I noticed the variable* --variable=otherlangs:he* , does no change at > all. > > how come? > > > > the actual output is all Hebrew characters got disappeared after > exporting > > to pdf file. > > Most likely cause is that you're using a font that doesn't cover Hebrew. > Take a font with good Hebrew coverage and pass it to pandoc with > --variable=mainfont:"Font Name" > > HTH > > -- > Joost Kremers > Life has its moments > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/9fb4c2b5-c25a-4132-8c64-f947a284d5e0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.