Re: Encoding help

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.06.2009 um 19:35 schrieb B. T. Raven:

> In the meanwhile I made a similar pdf with auctex and the .txt file  
> produced by Adobe Reader is even more fragmented than the first  
> one. I guess this is not surprising after the orginal .tex file  
> goes through  \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} and \usepackage{babel}.


As long as you're using pdfTeX you can be sure that the PDF file has  
composed characters (input encoding plays no role, because it's just  
an *input* encoding). With a CMAP (character mapping, see 'texdoc -s  
cmap') and an 8 (or 7) bit font encoding (T1, T2A, T2B, T2C, T5, OT1,  
OT1tt, OT6, LGR, LAE, LFE) the composed characters can be mapped to  
the ready to use (pre-composed) Unicode characters.

The use of XeTeX might be another option (it's xdvipdfmx output  
driver inserts CMAPs into the PDF file). Or another PDF viewer, one  
that automatically reloads the updated PDF output file.

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  Pete

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