Thank you for the answers, Bruce, Pablo and Hraban. I was not aware of
ActualText.
I work on a manjaro linux, and I tested the example Pablo sent on
several programs:
mupdf-gl or mupdf: fails! [mupdf-gl is what I customarily use for its
blazing speed]
firefox: fails
vivaldi: passes
okular: passes
qpdfview: passes
evince: passes
But \pdfbackendactualtext is actually just what I needed since it can
be used also for other things like:
\starttext
what a \pdfbackendactualtext{\hyphenatedword{wonderful}}{wonderful} text
\stoptext
Best regards
Marcus Vinicius
On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 3:13 AM Henning Hraban Ramm <te...@fiee.net> wrote:
>
> Am 06.08.23 um 20:37 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez:
> > Hans provides this jewel in back-imp-pdf.mkxl and back-pdf.mkiv (adapter
> > for your needs):
> >
> > \starttext
> > text \pdfbackendactualtext{whatever you want}{filia} text
> > \stoptext
> >
>
> > In any case, the PDF viewer used to search must have ActualText implemented.
>
> Exactly. And e.g. Apple’s PDF library has not; it is used not only by
> Preview.app, but also by Skim and TeXshop. (I should check this with
> other viewers/libs.)
>
> Hraban
>
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