From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: copy/paste text broken with certain ligatures
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:24:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5710189A.2000401@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSO.2.20.1604140933060.27833@firefly.landy.cx>
On 4/14/2016 3:47 PM, Brian R. Landy wrote:
> Hi, sometime between version 2015.08.05 and 2016.04.10 the handling of
> certain ligatures changed (sorry, I don't have intermediate versions to
> test with). The issue is the ligatures no longer copy/paste as the
> original two characters, which also breaks text searched of the pdf.
> Instead they copy as a single glyph.
>
> I'm seeing the problem with "ti" and "fj", while others like "ffi",
> "fi", and "ff" are fine in both versions.
>
> I see this using Calibri (other fonts I tried don't support those two
> ligatures):
>
> \starttypescript[cleartype]
> \definetypeface[\typescriptone][ss][sans][calibri][default]
> \stoptypescript
> \usetypescript[cleartype]
> \setupbodyfont[cleartype,sans,10pt]
> \starttext
> ffi\par
> fi\par
> ff\par
> fi\par
> ti\par
> fj\par
> \stoptext
>
> Thank you.
not all pdf viewers can do that well, unless it's broken, context
outputs the tounicode vectors needed for it
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-14 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-14 13:47 Brian R. Landy
2016-04-14 22:24 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-04-15 3:39 ` Brian R. Landy
2016-04-15 11:31 ` Ulrike Fischer
2016-04-16 13:22 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-18 14:56 ` Brian R. Landy
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