On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 7:05 PM Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 6/3/2021 11:25 AM, Christoph Reller wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Windows, we have the consola font. Consider the MWE: > > > > \starttext > > \definedfont[name:consola*default at 12 pt] > > - > > \stoptext > > > > The output PDF is correctly generated with recent versions of ConTeXt > > LMTX. The hyphen is, however, mapped to a soft hyphen > > <https://unicode-table.com/en/00AD/> by means of the ToUnicode table > > which contains: > > beginbfchar > > <015E> <00AD> > > endbfchar > > > > Consequently, when copying the text from the PDF and pasting in an > > editor or a console, the soft hyphen is pasted. > > > > I would like to change the ToUnicode information to an ordinary > > hyphen-minus <https://unicode-table.com/en/002D/>: > > beginbfchar > > <015E> <002D> > > endbfchar > > > It is (as awlways with fonts) more complex than that (1) because > different unicode slots share the same shape and (2) we have some > (already) old hyphen patching code for messy fonts (which is kind of bad > anyway). > > We actually want all these hyphens to have the right tounicode even if > they share shapes (i already had some comment about looking into that > but never ran into a font that needed it). > > So, after some experimenting i decided to solve that in a different way > (lmtx only because there i have more control) ... i need to run some > checks and then do an upload so that you can test (also other files if > possible). >
Finally I found the time to do some extended testing on this and it seems that for my use-case the LMTX version 2021-06-09 behaves as I would expect: Hyphens are now extracted as hyphens. Thanks a lot for your implementation, Hans! Cheers, Christoph
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