Siard wrote: > songbird wrote: >> when cutting and pasting from evince to a terminal the process is >> translating a "um" into a "mm" which is a signifcant change for a >> technical document. >> >> the source document used was downloaded from: >> >> "http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pdf/srep01732.pdf" >> >> search for the phrase >> >> "particle size between 200–500 um" >> >> and copy and paste it to any text terminal, vi'd document, or even >> LibreOffice doc. all do the same thing and translate it from um to >> mm. > > But this behavior is exactly as expected! > When copying text from a pdf to any other document, the formatting, > such as font, line spacing etc. is not preserved.
well it sure wasn't what i expected. :) > So, when copying text to a LibreOffice doc, you should determine and > set the font yourself, and assign the Symbol font to the m, which > yields µ. If you don't have the Symbol font installed, you could > install xfonts-mathml, which provides it. > > AFAIK, a text terminal, vi'd document etc. can contain only one font, > so manually changing the m to a µ is the only option here. in the future i'll have to proof read every copy and paste operation for funny translations. i don't know about you and how much you reference technical documents and copy and paste, but the sort of mistranslation is one that would make me shudder. is there a safer copy and paste function that does preserve fonts? songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/17d55a-buf....@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de