As suggested earlier by Zdenek Wagner, use \XeTeXgenerateactualtext in the preamble of your latex document. Then the Devanagari text can also be easily copied from the generated pdf. We use this option in pdfs posted on sanskritdocuments.org and it works very well.
ShreeDevi ____________________________________________________________ भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:27 PM, Hueckstedt, Robert A. (rah2k) < ra...@virginia.edu> wrote: > With a publisher’s permission I used xelatex to provide them copy, not > camera-ready copy, for a long book that has Sanskrit in Devanagari and an > English translation. Of course, the files I provided the publisher are > pdfs. Now, the publisher wants them in doc. When they try to cut and paste > from the pdf to doc, none of the conjunct consonants are recognized in the > doc file. I used the velthuis-sanskrit mapping, and I am wondering if using > the RomDev mapping would make a difference. I somehow doubt it. Suggestions? > > > > Gratefully, > > Bob Hueckstedt > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > >
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