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From: Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@UNI-FREIBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: [REQ] "TeX: Rejoining the mainstream" - comments requested
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:42:43PM +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> J.Fine <J.Fine@OPEN.AC.UK> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for this.  On Ubuntu, evince PDF viewer to Emacs, I get
> > ==
> >                 A
> > Achievements of LTEX (the first fifteen years)
> > ==
> > from TeX input
> >    Achievements of \LaTeX{}( the first fifteen years)
> 
> cutting and pasting from any tex-ish pdf tends to be dodgy.  there are
> methods ([cm]map packages, for example) that get better text out, but
> they'll never cope with a knuth/lamport "stupid logo" (tm).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{letltxmacro}
\usepackage{accsupp}
\LetLtxMacro\OrgLaTeX\LaTeX
\DeclareRobustCommand{\LaTeX}{%
  \BeginAccSupp{method=plain,ActualText=LaTeX}%
    \OrgLaTeX
  \EndAccSupp{}%
}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{Achievements of \LaTeX}.
\end{document}

> that said, i've never seen that particular oddity, so it may be a
> special oddity of your pdf viewer (i tend only to use acrorubbish
> viewer, but go to xpdf in extremis).

Cut&Paste from acroread: "Achievements of LaTeX"
However, xpdf 3.00 doesn't support this PDF feature.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek@uni-freiburg.de>