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Make sure that the text can be searched regardless of hyphenation #3367

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tkoeppe opened this issue Nov 4, 2019 · 6 comments
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Make sure that the text can be searched regardless of hyphenation #3367

tkoeppe opened this issue Nov 4, 2019 · 6 comments

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tkoeppe commented Nov 4, 2019

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.
@jensmaurer jensmaurer added the decision-required A decision of the editorial group (or the Project Editor) is required. label Nov 20, 2019
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This sounds like a research project that needs a champion.

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https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/43033/make-hyphenated-words-in-pdf-searchable

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jwakely commented Nov 25, 2019

Works for me:

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This is KDE's Okular. Get a better reader 😜

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tkoeppe commented 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 jensmaurer removed the decision-required A decision of the editorial group (or the Project Editor) is required. label Feb 10, 2020
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Editorial meeting: Nothing to do here, unless a specific recommendation for a LaTeX-level change comes along.

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I find that https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/full works great on Firefox.

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