On Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:03:13 GMT Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > And I mean copy-and-paste not just from PDF but from a terminal window. > > Yes, but I have a question: "\-1" renders in PDF as a long dash > followed by a "1". This looks okay in PDF, but if I copy and paste > into a terminal, I don't get an ASCII 45. Seems seems to contradict > what you are saying about cut-and-paste above. What am I missing? If I do:- echo "- \- \[fi]"|groff -Tpdf | okular - I see a hyphen, minus and fi ligature. Copying to a text document gives hyphen hyphen f i. The reason is because gropdf adds a ToUnicode CMAP entry to fonts which used the text.enc encoding when created with afmtodit. You can see a difference if you run:- echo "- \- \[fi]"|groff -Tpdf -P-u | okular - Which prevents the CMAP entry, and when you copy to text the minus unicode cha character is seen. (On my system the fi ligature is separated into f i still but I suspect that is KDE being "helpful"). Cheers Deri
