[XeTeX] asterism

[Ross Moore]

Hi Khaled,

On 17/01/2010, at 5:43 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:45:29AM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> 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).
>
> I was wrong, Poppler does support ActualText (at least 0.12), but with
> xdvipdfmx file the string is placed incorrectly, no problem with
> pdfTeX/LuaTeX generated PDF.

Can you please post the LaTeX files that you used for testing this,
with whatever adaptations are needed for each driver software.

>
> Regards,
>  Khaled

Cheers,

	Ross

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