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Anecdotally, hyphenation prevents hyphenated words from being found in full-text search in some PDF readers. We should investigate how we can make full-text search work reliably, at least in some reader.
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jensmaurer commentedon Nov 20, 2019
This sounds like a research project that needs a champion.
jensmaurer commentedon Nov 24, 2019
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/43033/make-hyphenated-words-in-pdf-searchable
jwakely commentedon Nov 25, 2019
Works for me:
This is KDE's Okular. Get a better reader 😜
tkoeppe commentedon Nov 25, 2019
That's also what I suggested to Lawrence, and he was happy to be given a recommendation of a tool that would work, rather then necessarily requiring changes in the source code.
jensmaurer commentedon Feb 10, 2020
Editorial meeting: Nothing to do here, unless a specific recommendation for a LaTeX-level change comes along.
JohelEGP commentedon Dec 30, 2020
I find that https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/full works great on Firefox.