On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM Deri <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Sunday, 5 October 2025 05:18:17 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
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> > Can Deri or others on the groff list shed some light on this question?
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> >
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> > Regards,
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> > Branden
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>
> This commit:-
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> https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=2a5ad85ce4e4d114bb2ccb89064c774087df7522
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> Restored the behaviour of gropdf 1.23.0. After font subsetting was added to 
> gropdf, which allowed it to be used with fonts which contain thousands of 
> glyphs, the cmap which worked with a single font stopped working (because the 
> minus could now be allocated an eight bit character number in any of the 
> sub-fonts rather than a fixed position in a single font).
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>
> Please repeat your tests using current git version. It the cmap is still not 
> working a copy of the pdf and the name of the viewer failing to obey the cmap 
> would be very helpful.

I just tried with your commit from this morning [1]. I was indeed seeing
the issue with Adobe Acrobat (macOS and Android) and now the pasted text
is correctly using HYPHEN-MINUS (as long as one does not go into editing
mode before copying). Thanks!

[1] https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=3ea378d35

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