[XeTeX] asterism
Khaled Hosny
khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun Jan 17 06:45:29 CET 2010
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}
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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