[XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

[Zdenek Wagner]

2016-02-25 2:05 GMT+01:00 Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au>:

> Hi Will, Jonathan, and others
>
> > On Feb 25, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Will Robertson <will at wspr.io> wrote:
> >
> > On 24 Feb 2016, at 2:20 AM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> For a document that wants some other kind of "ActualText", there's
> going to need to be pretty detailed markup in the source, I think. (E.g.
> each word, or similar unit, will need to be tagged to provide the desired
> ActualText that goes with it.) At that point, I wonder if turning off
> \XeTeXgenerateactualtext and just doing it "manually" with macros that
> generate \special{}s would be the most reasonable way forward.
> >
>
> You have to be *very* careful with /ActualText, since it must be done
> using PDFdoc encoding,
> as it becomes part of the page contents stream.
>

I thought so a few years ago but /ActualText may be done in Unicode if the
string is prepended with BOM.

Zdeněk Wagner
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http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

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