On Sunday 06 May 2012 12:01:02 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Ideally, there should be a proper ToUnicode cmap in the PDF so that
> copy and paste gives good results. On the PostScript side, it should
> be theoretically possible to use the `GlyphNames2Unicode' dictionary
> (an undocumented Adobe Distille
> * When using -Tps and converting to PDF, copy&paste will produce
> U+2212 for the minus sign ('\-' input) and
> U+002D for the hyphen ('-' input).
> (I tried it with KDE's konqueror-embedded PDF viewer.)
> But copy&paste from PDF always needs postprocessing: In particular,
>
Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> > But a hyphens looks nicer when it is thin; \[u2012] achieves this.
> > What you really want to do is to change your groff input so that it
> > uses
>
> > * - for hyphens,
> > * \- for minus signs.
>
> > \fBiconv \-f ISO\-8859\-1 \-t UTF\-8\fP
> > converts input from
