J.Fine <[log in to unmask]> 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). 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). > I've not been able to test your suggested fix for the 'fi' problem yet. the suggestion was new to me, too, and my home machine has a crocked old lm font distribution, so it probably won't work here. for the ligatures, as well as the weird character codes, the *map packages are the way to go, in general. robin