[XeTeX] asterism

[Benct Philip Jonsson]

Khaled Hosny skrev:
> 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).
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> 
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \setromanfont{Adobe Garamond Pro}
> \usepackage{accsupp}
> 
> \newcommand{\asterism}{%
>         \BeginAccSupp{method=hex,unicode,ActualText=2042}%
>                 \raisebox{-.15em}{%
>                         \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.05em}%
>                         \begin{tabular}{@{}cc@{}}%
>                                 \multicolumn2c*\\[-.75em]*&*%
>                         \end{tabular}%
>                 }%
>         \EndAccSupp{}%
> }
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> This \asterism\ is an asterism.
> 
> \end{document}

It seems to me it would be easier to just create a font
containing just a U+2042 character.  I realize there might
be a license problem, but asterisks don't look that different
between fonts; it should be possible to find a suitable free
font to copy and if needed scale the outline from.

/BP 8^)>
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