[XeTeX] asterism

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun Jan 17 07:43:46 CET 2010


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:45:29AM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 07:56:19PM -0500, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> > Seems to me that the custom asterism construction could also work, if
> > there’s some way to tell the PDF reader, “here’s a couple of arbitrary
> > glyphs, but treat them as a single U+2042 character for search &
> > copy-paste purposes.”
> 
> AFAIK, PDF's /ActualText tag is what you are lokking for, though not
> every PDF reader support it (Poppler-based reaaders don't for example).

I was wrong, Poppler does support ActualText (at least 0.12), but with
xdvipdfmx file the string is placed incorrectly, no problem with
pdfTeX/LuaTeX generated PDF.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
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