{copy-paste} is about copying text and other elements from one place (often a PDF file) and pasting it in another place. Searching for text (in a PDF file) is a process closely related to copying because both use the OCR (optical character recognition) layer in the PDF file.

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copy&paste: diacritics and special characters

Why can't I correctly copy&paste from my pdf documents (created by LuaLaTeX)? E.g., I get Faḫr al-Din̄ al-Rāzī instead of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Surprisingly, most other things (including Arabic ...
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TeXShop auto-deletion of certain groups of pasted in characters

For my LaTeX equations I use Mathtype's excellent capability of copying equations as TeX code. My minor problem arises when I want numbered equations in LaTeX and also want to type the equation in ...