The Find capability in Skim currently has several limitations: 1. In single-column text, Skim does not find phrases when they wrap across lines, or words that are hyphenated between lines. However, if the wrapped phrases or hyphenated words are copied from the document and pasted into the find box, they are found (but the non-wrapped or - hyphenated versions are not). Thus it appears that Skim's Find algorithm doesn't include the possibility of different types of white space between words and that it doesn't deal with the possibility of hyphenation. Preview addresses this issue by searching on single words only (if a phrase is entered, it finds all instances of each word individually). This is less desirable than true phrase searching, but missing instances of a phrase when a line wrap occurs somewhere in the phrase is problematic.
2. In multi-column text, Skim does not find wrapped phrases or hyphenated words even when they are copied and pasted into its find box. Presumably this is related to the known problem in targeting columns as individual text containers on a PDF page. Preview's single word approach also mitigates this a bit. If it's not possible to improve the situation, particularly for phrase searching, users should be alerted to the fact that Find may fail to work as they anticipate, particularly for multi-column documents, so that they can drop back to single-word searching when necessary. Jim Harrison UVa ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
