Am Freitag, 14. Februar 2025, 08:48:06 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: > On 2/14/2025 2:19 AM, Gerion Entrup wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently learned that Typst seems to be able to produce PDFs where a > > hyphenated text can be copied without the hyphenation (so all words in the > > copied text are not hyphenated). > > I seem to recall that the PDF format has an extra mode for this, where the > > creation program can embed some text that should only appear when copied > > and replace the word parts that are visible on the page. > > > > ConTeXt, in it's default mode, seems not to embed this text. When copying > > hyphenated words, the hyphenated word parts appear as distinct words (even > > without the hyphen). Is there a way to tell ConTeXt to produce PDF where > > the text can be copied without hyphenated words? > > This is a fuzzy area and has always depended on how pdf viewers see > things. The standard has some suggestions and oenm is to use soft > hyphens which is what we do (can be turned off). From your description > it looks like actual text is used and in this case, although one can > make that work, to me it is not a solution, it not only polutes the page > stream, it also can interferes with other features and increases overhead. > > When a viewer sees aoft hyphen it is assumed that it looks for the next > part of the word. Afaik acrobat reader can handle both variants. The > other (open source) viewers that I use are a mixed bag (in areas like > these).
Thanks for the answer. I researched this for my default PDF-viewer, Okular from KDE, and this program seems to be really special in this regard. It should be actively responsible for the behavior described in my original mail. See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447094#c5 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233604. Gerion
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