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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Problem with sans-serif compiled PDF [closed]
I want to write an article in Portuguese using sans-serif font. I face the following problem: the generated PDF can't handle selection of words with accents (see the GIF below). Can anyone help, ...
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How to copy&paste unformatted text from TeX?
Despite the unequivocal superiority of TeX, one utility of Word (or other word processors such as OpenOffice/LibreOffice) is that either formatted or unformatted text can be easily exported. For ...
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Copy cyrillic text from PDF
I need to produce a PDF with Cyrillic text such that it could be copy-pasted to other files. I have the requirement to use the font style and font size set by \fontsize as provided in my MWE, see ...
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TeXStudio copy and paste loses tabulations i.e. layout
When I make the copy of a block of source code in TeXStudio, I lose the tabulation i.e. the layout. Boring! Example: Before copy: $\begin{vmatrix} 3-\lambda ...
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Can't copy-paste text from my latex pdf
I am using TexStudio to write my latex document, wich is using utf-8 encoding. All the pdf file generated can't be copy-paste. It seems like the pdf is generated as an image. Even when I change PDF ...
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Fixing issue with copy-paste with AccSupp
I am preparing a math-heavy document and am using the AccSupp package to control what is copied and pasted (for example, $\angle ABC$ usually results in \ABC being copied, but I have it set to copy &...
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Copy code from lstlisting excluding line number
I have this latex code \documentclass{article} \usepackage[lmargin=2.5cm,rmargin=2.5cm,tmargin=1.5cm,bmargin=3.5cm]{geometry} \usepackage{listings} % Environment meant for source code (useful for ...
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Fixed width listings columns without extra spaces after copy from pdf
I would like the code listings from my Beamer slides to have the same spacing after having been copied from the pdf, and pasted into a text editor. I have been working with the columns option of the ...
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I can't copy and paste underscore
I have a problem that I have not been able to solve. When I generate my PDF document and want to copy the text to a terminal or a WORD document, the underscores are not copied. In the PDF it does ...
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Big LaTeX delimiters have a weird encoding in the pdf. How can I avoid this?
I noticed recently that changing the size of parentheses in LaTeX results in a different encoding of the text in the pdf (as determined using the copy/paste functionality in my pdf viewer). For ...
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How to make copying something ignore linebreaks?
I have following code: \documentclass{article} \setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{0.5mm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{18pt} \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{2.5} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{array} \usepackage{...
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A practical way to create, copy and paste LaTeX-generated equations in png format with transparent background?
In order of priority: Online (I use Overleaf on a daily basis, Idk if it can help) (latex2png website seemed perfect at first but many packages are missing [e.g. I can't use the \mathscr{} command]) ...
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Making text clickable so that when clicked on, the text is copied
I was wondering if there was some way to make it so that when you click on certain text in a latex document, it is immediately copied. I am trying to make an address book for myself and it would be ...
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Overleaf: Is it possible to copy and paste one or multiple files(folders, tex, images....) in overleaf project?
I am trying to copy many tex. files from one folder to another (tex. files will have same name but a little different content which I would change after copy/paste) at a same project but nothing ...
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Customize copy-text for box
Motivation My end goal is to include more Mathematica expressions in LaTeX-pdfs that are copy-paste-able back into Mathematica notebooks. For instance, the code \usepackage{mmacells} ... \begin{...
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