<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Jonathan, </div><div><br></div><div>this is splendid. Adding support for the PDF "ActualText" tagging layer is a huge step. </div><div><br></div><div>I wonder — what happens in case of mathematical formulae? </div><div><br></div><div>I think it would be rather clever to embed the TeX notation or even, huh huh, MathML into the ActualText layer for the math mode — per equation, of course :) . Or use the "Unicode math linear format" as proposed by Microsoft: </div><div><a href="http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf">http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>A.<br><br><div>Sent from my mobile phone.</div></div><div><br>On 23.02.2016, at 15:43, Jonathan Kew <<a href="mailto:jfkthame@gmail.com">jfkthame@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>The code for the \XeTeXgenerateactualtext feature (it's an integer parameter; set it to 1 to get ActualText added to the PDF, for better copy/paste and search in Acrobat) is now on sourceforge, in an "actualtext" branch, for anyone who wants to try building and experimenting with it.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Note that this requires a new version of xdvipdfmx, as it uses a new DVI opcode. The patch for xdvipdfmx is attached here (based on the current TeXLive svn source).</span><br><span></span><br><span>Akira, if you could check that the patch seems OK, that would be great. I've not really looked at dvipdfm-x code in a long time. I haven't pushed this it to TL yet, as it's all rather experimental, but I hope we can safely include it for TL'16.</span><br><span></span><br><span>JK</span><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><xdvipdfmx-for-xetex-0_99995.patch></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>--------------------------------------------------</span><br><span>Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:</span><br><span> <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex">http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>