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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Non-printable Unicode control characters
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:46:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A81D8B.30201@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.uf0ewvr5fkrasx@your-b27fb1c401>

Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:

> It appears to me that zwj and zwnj etc. should be invisible in  
> typeset-text output -- as explained above, but should still be encoded in  
> the output pdf. Think pdf-text extraction, converting between Arabic and  
> Farsi typesetting conventions, etc.

we can do that later (we can use an attribute to keep track of 
preceding/following special thingies and inject them in the output later 
on)

>> and of course others need to be handled as well
> 
> Even lsep's and psep's should be present in the output pdf (eg \par =>  
> psep). Will make text extraction much more useful, etc.

rather useless in pdf; at some point i might add proper structure to the 
pdf output but it has a rather low priority (never needed it)

Hans

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-17 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-15 19:23 Khaled Hosny
2008-08-16  7:53 ` Hans Hagen
2008-08-17  2:37   ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2008-08-17 12:46     ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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