[XeTeX] Roman Numerals as stylistic alternatives

[enrico.gregorio at univr.it]

From: Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au>
> Hi Enrico,
>
>> From: enrico.gregorio at univr.it
>> 
>> I'll think to a way for adding the /ActualText to the macros I 
>> showed you.
>> 
>> There is a way, via the accsupp package by Heiko Oberdiek:
>>
>> Works with AR 9, though not perfectly in the selections.
> 
> What do you get? A copy of the whole thing for each letter?
> I think that is fixed in AR 10.
> 
> There are lot of bugs in AR regarding accessibility features and exporting to different formats.
> AR 10 has fixed some of these, and 10.1 a few more. But many remain.

I tried with AR 9.4.5 on Mac OS X 10.5; I get the number, when copying and pasting,
as advertised by the package. The only problem is that in some cases not all the Roman
number gets selected, but copying gives the whole thing.

Other viewers don't understand this, as expected. I still feel that it's quite useless:
if I find "Louis XIV" I may want to copy it and get the real name, not "Louis 14".

Ciao
Enrico

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