Re: [#1] CJK regression? | lmtx-20210613 &c.

From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [#1] CJK regression? | lmtx-20210613 &c.
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:07:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <acf882a2-7fcf-1e40-e495-6bd28f86b621@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG5iGsBL-AcSdObWjXvbu+swSX1pS9oB=t68qBQ2R-VeF1utbQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/15/2021 10:25 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 9:13 AM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl 
> <mailto:j.hagen@xs4all.nl>> wrote:
> 
>     On 6/15/2021 12:21 AM, Richard Mahoney wrote:
>      > Thank you very much for this Hans. And especially for resolving
>      > what looks like quite a complex issue in next to no time.
>      >
>      > As it happens I've found LMTX just fine for "production", so long as
>      > I keep copies of a few versions that I know are working well.
>       >
>      > I settled on SciTE a long time ago and tend to keep a few start
>      > up scripts that make reverting to a previous version simple:
>      >
>      > -r-x------ 1 rbm49 rbm49 210 Dec 20 16:54
>     SciTE-start-lmtx-20200920.sh
>      > -r-x------ 1 rbm49 rbm49 210 Jun 13 22:04
>     SciTE-start-lmtx-20210509.sh
>      > -rwx------ 1 rbm49 rbm49 210 Jun 15 08:50 SciTE-start-lmtx-latest.sh
> 
>     btw, When testing your example I noticed that sumatra pdf (which i use
>     as viewer) doesn't handle selecting the cjk text well. I looked at the
>     source (on github) and get the impression that it might be some font
>     bbox issue (these asian fonts have hugee bboxes); (also old) acrobat
>     and
>     browsers do fine as does an old windows okular I have installed.
> 
>     Does anyone know of a minimalistic mupdf based pdf viewer that has a
>     decent gui but not all this (semi) epub, xps, reflow, etc stuff on
>     board? Just the mupdf pdf core.
> 
> 
> 
> perhaps the mupdf app for android.

the windows mupdf viewer is somewhat crippled (no selection) but 
searching for something shows the right bbox

> Another one is  evince for windows:
> https://portableapps.com/apps/office/evince_portable 
> <https://portableapps.com/apps/office/evince_portable>
I tried it and it does the selection ok (but it's some 60MB so not lean 
and mean).

I also tried xpdfreader (some 30B) which also selects ok.

Hans

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