Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

2016-02-25 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2016-02-25 2:05 GMT+01:00 Ross Moore : > Hi Will, Jonathan, and others > > > On Feb 25, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Will Robertson wrote: > > > > On 24 Feb 2016, at 2:20 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > >> > >> For a document that wants some other kind of "ActualText", there's > going to need to be pretty detai

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-25 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 23/2/16 23:49, Bobby de Vos wrote: On 2016-02-19 03:31, Jonathan Kew wrote: Note that the new features in xetex do not in any way enforce a particular way of writing (for Urdu or anything else). The inter-word spacing is primarily under the control of the font designer; \XeTeXinterwordspacesh

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

2016-02-25 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 24/2/16 23:31, Will Robertson wrote: On 24 Feb 2016, at 2:20 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote: For a document that wants some other kind of "ActualText", there's going to need to be pretty detailed markup in the source, I think. (E.g. each word, or similar unit, will need to be tagged to provide the

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

2016-02-25 Thread Will Robertson
On 25 Feb 2016, at 8:33 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > > I'd guess it has always been possible, in principle, to attach ActualText to > math at the macro level, using \specials{}s to write the necessary PDF code > directly. But I confess I haven't really looked into what this would > involve pe