Questions tagged [copy-paste]
{copy-paste} is about copying text and other elements from one place (often a PDF file) and allowing it to be pasted. 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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How do I include a MWE? [migrated]
I have a LaTeX file called testglister2.tex in my directory ~/GlisterBook. How do I import it into TeX.SE as an MWE? I use emacs as my text editor and from there I can copy the file, but how do I ...
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Speeding up repetitive typing
If I am writing a document say,
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
y = some long equation
\end{equation
\end{document}
and some really long equation ...
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Quotation marks and hyphen in listings generate un-copyable PDF
I'm writing a document for general purpose so that anyone can follow it and the idea is to copy and paste this command in a Linux terminal. But when I do that in a terminal give me error because ...
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How to configure tcblisting with minted to allow copy/paste from listing with whitespace characters?
This answer from a similar question gets very close to a final copy/paste solution, but does not work for me as it does not select whitespace. I am asking a new question as the linked one is several ...
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Included PDF image has invisible, but selectable text
I am currently facing some problem when I tried to import a PDF as a graphic.
The PDF with some original text beside was first cropped to remove the text and then imported using \includegraphics.
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How to keep formating when copy-paste code sections with minted?
I am using the minted package for syntax highlighting code in my slides, but I have some problem to make this code easily copyable directly from the PDF to the console. it seems that the whitespaces ...
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How to copy minus as hyphen?
There is a question about minuses in listings.
Is it possible to make (document-wide) the minus sign (−) to look like the typographic minus, but be copied from the resulting PDF as the hyphen (-), ...
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Package cmap or `\input glyphtounicode`?
I'm sending PDFs to some folks who are supposed to copy some of the content elsewhere. It is important that my files are searchable and copyable (while I doubt these words to be proper English...)
So ...
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How to reuse code
This might have been asked before, but I am not sure what to search for.
I am often in the situation that I want to print identical portions of text (or images, tables, etc) on a single A4 page in ...
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Character Encoding pdf [duplicate]
I compile my latex with pdflatex in texniccenter. The produced pdf looks good. But when I select a word and copy it over to a texteditor, some of the characters are wrong. for instance all german ö,ü,...
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How to remove indent characters when copying from PDF document using listings package
I am pretty sure I read something about this before, but I can not find it. Mark it as a duplicate if so please.
I am coding inside lstlisting environment using SPACEBAR for separate words and TAB ...
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Using stringstyle with quotation marks does not fit properly using listings package
Please consider this MWE with stringstyle=\bfseries\color{blue}:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{...
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Is it possible to not copy numeration using lstlisting?
Please consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{listings}
\definecolor{...
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Make automatically equation copyable in pdf
I would like to write a .pdf where all rendered equations can be copied and pasted correctly as TeX code. Someone had posted a similar question :
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/119713/making-...
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Control the copy/paste output of latex text
Wondering if there is a way to control the copy/paste output of latex generated PDF text. For example, say I have this in the output PDF:
g : b → a
If I could control the copy/paste output I would ...
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Copy pastable code in tex
I have XML code which I need to copy paste.
Here's is the code
<joint name="joint1" type="continuous">
<parent link="link1"/>
<child link="link2"/>
<origin xyz="5 3 0" ...
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How do I copy WhatsApp chats and retain linebreaks
I am looking to copy many whatsapp chats into a document and retain the linebreaks. If I just copy them in, then there are no linebreaks. How do I do this? Thanks
Verbatim (alone) doesn't work ...
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How to increase minimum space between words in XeLaTex output?
Update: The problem seems to be that the spacing between some words is too small, and the ATS thinks it's one word. So, the ideal solution would be to set a minimum spacing across the entire document,...
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Print any utf-8 character to copy-paste from pdf
I have this code:
\documentclass[varwidth,border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newcommand{\MyBrand}{%
\includegraphics[width=3em]{myBrand}%
}
\begin{document}
I always use \MyBrand , ...
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LaTeX - Copy and paste º
I have a LaTeX document.
I can copy from PDF (º), but it pastes as (o). How can I handle it?
Use:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[brazil]{babel}
\...
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How does one make \textls text copy-and-pasteable in PDF?
Consider the following document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{microtype}
%\usepackage{adobecaslon}
\begin{document}
Some \textls[250]{letterspaced text}.
\textls*[100]{SPEECH}
\end{document}
...
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Integral in math messes up copy-and-paste of text [duplicate]
For a document like
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\input glyphtounicode.tex
\input glyphtounicode-cmr.tex
\pdfgentounicode=1
\pagestyle{empty} % for quick CTRL+A
\begin{document}...
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importing equation images
I'm currently writing a summary of a paper, and to make things easier for me, I decided to just use the windows snipping tool, to copy the equations from the paper, and insert them in my latex summary ...
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Why is there no spacing between words in the table of contents?
When I make a table of contents in LaTeX and execute the TeX File with pdflatex, some spaces (the most of them) in it are deleted for search function (and for me in braille).
My question is: why ...
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Can't compile a PDF with UTF-8 in Sweave [duplicate]
I try to compile in Sweave (R Studio) a PDF which contains cyrillic characters. The PDF-file looks nice, and the cyrillic characters display correctly. But when I try to copy some text from the PDF to ...
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Why LuxiMono's dashes disappear when copying-pasting from Acrobat Reader?
Consider the following MCE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{luximono}
\begin{document}
\texttt{foo-bar}
\end{document}
When copying-pasting "foo-bar" from Acrobat Reader,...
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Displaying a copy-pastable and well structured BibTeX key in my document
Context: I want to insert the BibTeX entry of my document at the beginning thereof. I thus want this code snippet meet two criteria:
Be easily copy-paste-able (code seen = code copy-pasted)
Looks ...
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Find apostrophe symbol ' in PDF file
I'm writing in french, with AZERTY keyboard and I don't know why I not can find the apostrophe symbol ' in my PDF file ?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\...
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XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX copy and paste broken and document not searchable?
I am on Windows using TeX Live 2016 and both xelatex and lualatex produce broken encodings when building the following
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{fontspec,unicode-math}
\...
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Type: Badbox , Overfull \hbox for text
i get from external file ... xtras/intro.tex a badbox warning with the following
line 1 Overfull/hbox (54,60191 pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 1---1
i copied and pasted text from word. I also ...
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Copying continuous text from PDF file to TXT file
My question doesn't explicitly refer to LaTeX itself, but the resulting PDF. To make long story short: I want to be able to copy text from PDF to TXT file as a continuous text. I believe this is ...
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Is there a way to make the page numbering nonselectable
Is there any way in pdflatex to make the page numbers non selectable in the outputed documents. I know that there are some pdfs floating around out there where the page number is not included in ...
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How to re-use a Theorem's number when repeating it for convenience
I want to have an appendix with a theorem's proof. The theorem appears in the main body of the document, and I would like to have it replicated in the appendix as well for convenience.
If I simply ...
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How to compile a document that you can search the pdf for latex math formulas? [duplicate]
Is it possible to compile a latex-document in such a way, that you can search for math formulas in the resulting pdf file by searching for the corresponding latex code? For example open the resulting ...
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fontspec does not create a searchable document with copyable text
My documents aren't copyable or searchable with the Apple pdf engine when using fontspec. using cmap doesn't help.
\documentclass[oneside, 12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]...
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Pipe gets changed from PDF
When using MikTex I've noticed the pipe | (vertical bar) looks fine in a pdf when when saved out as text it gets changed to j so
Always five, acting as one | Dedicated | Inseparable | Invincible
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Can we get maths in PDFs that can be copy-pasted and screen-read?
Mathematics in PDFs can be cumbersome for any purpose but reading or printing. In particular, copying mathematics in order to use it in another document, and screen-reading for visually impaired ...
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Issue with diacritics in Romanian language document
I have a document that uses Romanian language, characters with diacritics. It is created using TexWorks.
My document looks like this:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[romanian]{babel}
ca ...
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key binding in LyX for c=entering matm mode and copying previous equation
Is there any specific way in LyX of binding a key to the following operation:
a) go into math mode
b) copy the immediately preceding piece of math, eg the last equation
at the current point of the ...
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Words containing “ff” in PDF created by LyX are not searchable [duplicate]
My setting under LyX "Document" command:
language encoding--unicode utf-8;
output--default
A minimal example:
type "coefficient" and generate PDF, then search it in PDF
result: not showing up
I ...
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Listing cut and paste in PDF
I am trying to get good copy-n-paste'able text from a LaTeX generated PDF using the listings package.
I have three listings that all behave not as I'd like:
Long lines are broken using breaklines ...
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Saving Image Rather Than Pasting
I think I might have accidentally pressed some combination of keys that messed up texstudio, because every time of press ctrl+v to paste it saves a picture file rather than paste.
What did I do ...
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How to copy text from PDF created by LaTeX?
I'm writing some texts in Brazilian Portuguese using LaTeX. Eventually I have to copy/paste some parts of those texts in Word, but with character problems.
I use the following code:
\...
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Text copied from pdf is missing spaces, or has extra ones
When I create a pdf with pdflatexand copy text from that pdf (using Adobe Reader DC on Windows 10), some of the spaces are missing. Here's an MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{newtxtext}
\...
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Okular doesn't recognize text [duplicate]
I am writing articles using Kile on Windows 7. I have a problem with search in the output file. For some reason, Okular doesn't recognize the text. Trying to copy something with the option text ...
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Text in pdf output not recognized
I am writing my first document with Latex, so please be patient ;-) I've searched through forums again and again but was unable to find a solution.
I am working with Texmaker and when compiling my ...
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Copy and paste unicode math
Consider the following example compiled with luatex.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{Latin Modern Math}
\begin{document}
$A_1$
\end{document}
Since Latin Modern ...
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Mathtype Latex Output - Removing $$ or \[
Is there a way to remove the $$ or \[ \] from the latex copy and paste settings on mathtype.
The reason that I need this is I use a series of uncover lines in my beamer presentation within an align ...
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Copying Arabic text from ConTeXt PDF [closed]
When copying and pasting an Arabic text from a PDF file generated by context, the characters are not correctly joint.
Consider the following MWE:
\definefontfamily [font] [serif] [Amiri] [features=...
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Using Microsoft word fonts in latex [closed]
I have a document written in Microsoft Word with Greek, Coptic and Hebrew in addition to Arabic and Hieroglyph languages. For Greek I used the font Greek, for Coptic I used the fonts CS Avva Shenouda ...
