> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sven Axelsson wrote: > >>From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>I think the proper thing is to add a note to the PDF docs > that people > >>should not expect cutting & pasting from the PDF to work. > PDF is made > >>for getting accurate printout, not for transporting ascii text. > > > > > > While I agree with that in general, I think that examples > marked as such > > only should use the actual characters that they are coded with. For > > example, a book on C programming should not use curly quotes around > > strings in code examples. And, yes, I know there are books > that do so. > > This is out of our control. The fonts that TeX uses might put > quotes in an entirely different place than what is customary.
Not totally out of control. Use a latin1-encoded font for the normal text and make sure TeX doesn't do special substitution of single quotes and double dashes in the examples. But maybe that is too much work. -- Sven Axelsson _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
