[latex3-commits] [git/LaTeX3-latex3-latex2e] glyphtounicode: Update changes and ltnews (90743fe6)

[Marcel Fabian Krüger]

Repository : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e
On branch  : glyphtounicode
Link       : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/commit/90743fe6c87c6b486fba91aea410ad0ade4d8558

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commit 90743fe6c87c6b486fba91aea410ad0ade4d8558
Author: Marcel Fabian Krüger <tex at 2krueger.de>
Date:   Thu Jan 21 21:26:43 2021 +0100

    Update changes and ltnews


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90743fe6c87c6b486fba91aea410ad0ade4d8558
 base/changes.txt      |  7 +++++++
 base/doc/ltnews33.tex | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/base/changes.txt b/base/changes.txt
index 1259b9f6..02d24152 100644
--- a/base/changes.txt
+++ b/base/changes.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ are not part of the distribution.
 	* ltshipout.dtx:
 	Define and call Lua callback pre_shipout_filter.
 
+2021-01-21  Marcel Krüger  <Marcel.Krueger at latex-project.org>
+
+	* ltfinal.dtx:
+	For pdfTeX enable automatic generation of ToUnicode maps.
+	For pdfTeX versions which do not support dumping these into the format,
+	all \pdfglyphtounicode instructions will be dumped into \everyjob
+
 2021-01-19  Frank Mittelbach  <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org>
 
 	* ltshipout.dtx: Reordered execution of shipout hooks so that code
diff --git a/base/doc/ltnews33.tex b/base/doc/ltnews33.tex
index 6929cb43..a17d4d5f 100644
--- a/base/doc/ltnews33.tex
+++ b/base/doc/ltnews33.tex
@@ -150,6 +150,16 @@ elements at shipout. An example for this is the \pkg{luacolor}
 package which could insert the color commands using this callback.
 
 
+\subsection{Improved copy\&paste support for \pdfTeX{} documents}
+
+Copying from and searching in PDF files works more reliably, if these
+files contain ToUnicode CMaps which help the viewer to map glyphs to
+(Unicode) characters. These CMaps already were written for OpenType
+font in \XeTeX{} and \LuaTeX{}. Now \pdfTeX's support for generating
+these maps is enabled by default too.
+%
+\githubissue{465}
+
 
 \subsection{Provide hook in \cs{selectfont}}