On Tue 30 Apr 2013 at 06:42:33 -0400, songbird wrote: > i don't have access to the original document > other than the link posted above.
Bceause I've snipped a bit, it is http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pdf/srep01732.pdf > i hope it doesn't happen in other documents as > i think scientific people who are copying and > pasting from PDF docs may be in for a rather rude > mistranslation of units. This would depend on the quality of the PDF. There are plenty about which have SI units in them for you to test. > would the debian-med folks be better at hunting > this down? Why? They have no more access to the PDF or original document than you or I have. > i can verify that in the Times New Roman font i'm > using in Libreoffice that when i paste a µ into it > that it does work correctly, but when i hit return > at the end of the line it translates the initial µ > into a capital M. this happens on the first line > on the page only. after that line the µ's work > correctly. > > this is just odd... ok, i give up for now, but if > someone can point this to a scientific text document > person (maybe debian-med or debian-edu) who copies and > pastes a lot that would be good as then they could be > made aware some kind of strange effect is going on. > i need to get some sleep. :) The 'strange effect' has nothing to do with the tools you are using. The only person who can do anything about it is the author. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130430184730.GI3248@desktop
