Darac Marjal wrote: >songbird wrote: >> when cutting and pasting from evince >> to a terminal the process is translating >> a "um" into a "mm" which is a signifcant >> change for a technical document. >>=20 >> the source document used was downloaded from: >>=20 >> "http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pdf/srep01732.pdf"; >>=20 >> search for the phrase >>=20 >> "particle size between 200=E2=80=93500 um" >>=20 >> and copy and paste it to any text terminal,=20 >> vi'd document, or even LibreOffice doc. all >> do the same thing and translate it from um to >> mm. >>=20 >> so if someone can replicate this it would >> help. if not, then i'd be stumped because >> i have no familiarity with cut and paste=20 >> underpinnings... > > I suspect the problem is the source document. What you're reading as > "200-500 =CE=BCm", is actually (if I can 'translate' to HTML for clarity) > "200-500 <font family=3D"symbol">m</font>m". That is, the first character > of the units is actually a lower-case M, but shown in a greek or symbol > font, such that it is rendered like a Mu. > > I suspect that, if you want to fix this, you either need to convert the > PDF with a sensible converter (try the pdf tools in debian; > poppler-utils for example) or talk to the authors of the paper and see > if you can get a copy of the source (maybe there was a Word or TeX > document that it was written up in).
i don't have access to the original document other than the link posted above. i hope it doesn't happen in other documents as i think scientific people who are copying and pasting from PDF docs may be in for a rather rude mistranslation of units. would the debian-med folks be better at hunting this down? i can verify that in the Times New Roman font i'm using in Libreoffice that when i paste a µ into it that it does work correctly, but when i hit return at the end of the line it translates the initial µ into a capital M. this happens on the first line on the page only. after that line the µ's work correctly. this is just odd... ok, i give up for now, but if someone can point this to a scientific text document person (maybe debian-med or debian-edu) who copies and pastes a lot that would be good as then they could be made aware some kind of strange effect is going on. i need to get some sleep. :) thanks, songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ppj45a-22a....@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de
