<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Junise Safvan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:junisesafvan@gmail.com" target="_blank">junisesafvan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I am using Malayalam typesetting using Xetex as described by <a href="http://thottingal.in/blog/2014/07/20/typesetting-malayalam-using-xetex/" target="_blank">Santhosh Thottingal</a>.<br><br></div>When I tried to copy the text from pdf created from Xetex, I am not getting the entire text.<br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I don't think it is quite possible to copy the text as individual code 
points because of the sheer nature of how ligatures are stored 
(represented) in PDF. See this for a short introduction/discussion on 
the topic - 
<a href="http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33476/why-cant-fi-be-separated-when-being-copied-from-a-compiled-pdf">http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33476/why-cant-fi-be-separated-when-being-copied-from-a-compiled-pdf</a><span class=""></span><span class=""></span><br>I
 remember there was some discussion on the same topic elsewhere, can't 
remember if it was in ConTeXt mailing list or somewhere in SMC channels,
 but my fading memory tells there were some discussion to enable the 
feature in PDF standard (I could be completely off here).<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div>How to solve this?<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Junise Safvan<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></div>
<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Rajeesh<br><a href="http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com</a><br><br></div></div>
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