This answer talks about how to turn off litgatures: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/5419/4357
Is there a way to turn off *all* special characters (e.g. small caps) and just get ASCII characters in the copy-and-paste level of the PDF? -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
