From: Bruce Horrocks <ntg@scorecrow.com>
To: ntg-context mailing list <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: How to make words searchable without diacritics
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 15:05:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <104AE60A-D35C-4099-AC64-649AE0A8FE0B@scorecrow.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK9ODgRt+scSa8i3t0W4vdRc+0aY3n1vZ3dVdw4W+WXYGCfJ2g@mail.gmail.com>
In Adobe Reader there is an option Preferences › Categories › Search › [ ] Ignore Diacritics and Accents which you can tick to search on the underlying letter only.
If the search is for your own use only then this might be a solution rather than change the generated PDF.
> On 5 Aug 2023, at 20:16, Marcus Vinicius Mesquita <marcusvinicius.mesquita@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear List,
>
> I have a lot of latin words in a document with the length of the
> vowels indicated by diacritics, for example: fīlĭa.
>
> Is it possible somehow to make these words searchable without the diacritics?
> That is, if I make a search for filia in the final pdf file, fīlĭa
> would also be found?
—
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-06 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-05 19:16 [NTG-context] " Marcus Vinicius Mesquita
2023-08-06 14:05 ` Bruce Horrocks [this message]
2023-08-06 18:37 ` [NTG-context] " Pablo Rodriguez
2023-08-07 6:11 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2023-08-07 12:17 ` Marcus Vinicius Mesquita
2023-08-07 17:14 ` Ulrike Fischer
2023-08-07 17:19 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2023-08-07 18:58 ` Marcus Vinicius Mesquita
2023-08-07 19:57 ` Hans Hagen
2023-08-08 1:22 ` Marcus Vinicius Mesquita
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