Would something like this work? http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/attachfile.pdf
el On 06/05/2019 04:25, Joel Kulesza wrote: > On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 2:43 PM Bob Alvarez <4...@outlook.com> wrote: > >> >> I want to insert text code listings into Lyx so readers can copy and >> paste from the pdf document into their plain text editor software. >> > > Bob, > > This doesn't directly address your need, but to permit readers to obtain > content from PDFs, the approach I've taken is to use the `navigator` ( > https://ctan.org/pkg/navigator?lang=en) package. What I will typically do > is include the listing and then also use `navigator` to embed the full > document as an attachment to the PDF. I've begun to routinely take this > approach because of ongoing difficulty providing easily copied text within > a LaTeX-generated PDF. > > Hope this helps, > Joel >
