[smc-discuss] Malayalam LaTeX pdf - copying text from

Nandakumar Edamana nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in
Sat May 2 23:25:53 PDT 2020


Thanks a lot for sharing the info! This is indeed great news!

On 03/05/20 11:28 am, Rajeesh K V wrote:
>> This same list contains some related older threads:
>> 1. Aisan and other complex text language copy/conversion issue in PDF - 2017
>> 2. PDF -Whether it is an input file or an output file? - 2018
>>
>> ...
> This seems to be a technical limitation of the XeLaTeX engine. Recent
> versions of `luahbtex` can generate PDF containing complex script
> texts which can be copy pasted back to a text editor properly. Here is
> one example of such a document:
> http://books.sayahna.org/ml/pdf/bbh-web.pdf

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