[XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

[Adam Twardoch (List)]

Jonathan, 

this is splendid. Adding support for the PDF "ActualText" tagging layer is a huge step. 

I wonder — what happens in case of mathematical formulae? 

I think it would be rather clever to embed the TeX notation or even, huh huh, MathML into the ActualText layer for the math mode — per equation, of course :) . Or use the "Unicode math linear format" as proposed by Microsoft: 
http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf

A.

Sent from my mobile phone.

> On 23.02.2016, at 15:43, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The code for the \XeTeXgenerateactualtext feature (it's an integer parameter; set it to 1 to get ActualText added to the PDF, for better copy/paste and search in Acrobat) is now on sourceforge, in an "actualtext" branch, for anyone who wants to try building and experimenting with it.
> 
> Note that this requires a new version of xdvipdfmx, as it uses a new DVI opcode. The patch for xdvipdfmx is attached here (based on the current TeXLive svn source).
> 
> Akira, if you could check that the patch seems OK, that would be great. I've not really looked at dvipdfm-x code in a long time. I haven't pushed this it to TL yet, as it's all rather experimental, but I hope we can safely include it for TL'16.
> 
> JK
> <xdvipdfmx-for-xetex-0_99995.patch>
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