write-hebrew-letter

name	write-hebrew-letter
description	Typeset a formal letter in Hebrew to PDF — RTL, David Libre, dual Hebrew/Gregorian dating, addressee and subject blocks. For complaints to a company or authority, קבילות, freedom-of-information requests, and any letter that needs to look official. Triggers on "write a formal Hebrew letter", "מכתב רשמי", "draft a complaint in Hebrew", "Hebrew letter PDF".

Typeset a formal Hebrew letter

Sources are vendored at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/assets/typst/, fonts at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/assets/fonts/.

Build

cd <working-dir>
cp ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/assets/typst/*.typ .
# edit letter-he.typ: addressee, subject line, body, sign-off
typst compile --root . --font-path ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/assets/fonts letter-he.typ letter.pdf

--font-path is not optional. Without it Typst warns once, substitutes a Latin serif that has no Hebrew coverage, and compiles successfully. See references/fonts-and-rendering.md.

Then always:

python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/verify_render.py letter.pdf --expect-font DavidLibre

Register

Formality follows the recipient, not the language. Vendor and personal mail is plain; banks, insurers, regulators, municipalities and government offices get לכבוד in the addressee block, בכבוד רב in the sign-off, and any filing or reference identifiers repeated in the sign-off. Details and stock phrasing in references/register.md.

Identity

Read the sender profile from ~/.claude-user-data/hebrew-correspondence/sender.json. If it is absent, run setup-hebrew-correspondence rather than inventing values. Never commit a filled-in sender.typ to a repository — it ships as placeholders deliberately.

Provenance constraints — read before adapting the template

These are not style preferences. See references/provenance.md.

• This plugin's copy descends from the public danielrosehill/Typst-Hebrew-Letter. Its neutral vocabulary (doc-head, details, subject-line) is deliberate. Do not reintroduce judicial terminology, and do not describe the design as modelled on government or tribunal correspondence.
• There is a private sibling, danielrosehill/Hebrew-Letter-Typst-Profile. Do not merge the two or port text between them; port typesetting fixes by hand.
• personal-admin/Vyvanse-Letter-0726/letter/formal.typ is frozen. Its PDFs are lodged with the Ministry and the NHI Commissioner under reference numbers, so a restyled rebuild would put a second visual version of a filed exhibit into circulation. Never edit it and never backport into it.