Listings package for LaTeX - Bugs: bug #138, Copying of monospaced text from... [Puszcza]

Listings package for LaTeX - Bugs: bug #138, Copying of monospaced text from...

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bug #138: Copying of monospaced text from PDFs includes "kern" spaces.

Submitted by:	Brooks Moses <brooks>
Submitted on:	Tue Apr 5 06:03:10 2011

Category:	None	Priority:	7 - High
Severity:	7 - Important	Status:	None
Privacy:	Public	Assigned to:	None
Open/Closed:	Open

Tue Apr 5 06:04:33 2011, comment #1:

Also, one of the issues reports that the verbatim package gets this right. This may or may not be true, but if so, it should be a source of a solution.

My guess is that somehow we need to mark the added spaces as "not really spaces" for copying purposes.

Brooks Moses <brooks>
Project Administrator

Tue Apr 5 06:03:10 2011, original submission:

When the listings package generates a program listing in something other than "fullflexible" spacing, it inserts lots of kerns to make up the appropriate spacing.

Unfortunately, these then show up as spaces when a user attempts to copy the text out of the resulting PDF file. This is a serious usability problem in the modern world.

See, for example, these Support issues:
https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/support/?141
https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/support/?158
(and probably others)

Brooks Moses <brooks>
Project Administrator

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