Jonathan, is there any method in XeTeX to explicitly emit "ActualText" or override the automatic content generated by the new option?
Or could you envision such a method? How would one need to approach it? (I'm not saying you should try implement it right away). :) A. Sent from my mobile phone. > On 23.02.2016, at 16:00, Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 23/2/16 14:52, Adam Twardoch (List) wrote: >> Jonathan, >> >> this is splendid. Adding support for the PDF "ActualText" tagging layer >> is a huge step. >> >> I wonder — what happens in case of mathematical formulae? > > At this point, nothing in particular. :) > >> I think it would be rather clever to embed the TeX notation or even, huh >> huh, MathML into the ActualText layer for the math mode — per equation, >> of course :) . > > I think these are ideas that could usefully be explored/implemented at the > macro level, rather than being built in to the engine. > > JK > > Or use the "Unicode math linear format" as proposed by >> Microsoft: >> http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf >> >> A. >> >> Sent from my mobile phone. >> >> On 23.02.2016, at 15:43, Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@gmail.com >> <mailto:jfkth...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >>> The code for the \XeTeXgenerateactualtext feature (it's an integer >>> parameter; set it to 1 to get ActualText added to the PDF, for better >>> copy/paste and search in Acrobat) is now on sourceforge, in an >>> "actualtext" branch, for anyone who wants to try building and >>> experimenting with it. >>> >>> Note that this requires a new version of xdvipdfmx, as it uses a new >>> DVI opcode. The patch for xdvipdfmx is attached here (based on the >>> current TeXLive svn source). >>> >>> Akira, if you could check that the patch seems OK, that would be >>> great. I've not really looked at dvipdfm-x code in a long time. I >>> haven't pushed this it to TL yet, as it's all rather experimental, but >>> I hope we can safely include it for TL'16. >>> >>> JK >>> <xdvipdfmx-for-xetex-0_99995.patch> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >>> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
