[XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

>
> Search and copy/paste behave in highly font-dependent ways for
> applications that do NOT support ActualText (or for PDFs that do not
> include it), but for applications that support the ActualText feature,
> this should be independent of the font being used.
> 

Once I was trying to find a word in a PDF file. The first letters of the word
were Th but I could not find any word starting with a Th. The reason?
The Th in the PDF was actually a ligature... I am sure that this ActualText
feature will solve such problems. 


Thank you!


A.S.

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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece