Adobe Reader PDF Text COPY : kanji + furigana copied

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The image below is of a PDF open in the latest Adobe Reader ; as you see, the text copy selection also grabs the furigana, producing slightly problematic results as plain text.

Web page copies tend to place the furigana in-line, which is even worse!

A typical result from Adobe Reader follows:

夜の　

ちやう

帳にささめき尽きし星の今を　

げかい

下界　の人の鬢のほつれ

よ

Is the last item furigana or not?

Compare my Curl markup example in this blog post. The MIT Curl browser plugin is available at the Tokyo SCSK site.

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vertical poem with non-selectable furigana

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The more conventional presentation of my previous post :

Here the applet is running fullscreen in Firefox.
The Japanese poem ( a tanka ) is by Yosano Akiko.

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Curl markup for non-selectable furigana in plain text copy

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The image below shows a poem selected with a mouse swipe WITHOUT the furigana text being selected.

Because Curl poetry markup uses macros, this can be set by a user to copy furigana INSTEAD of the kanji !

The size of the furigana and its visibility can be user options.

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Copy kanji plain text without furigana text

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Curl for poem formatting : select poem text, but not furigana text.

This allows the user to copy the poem and not the furigana. This can be set as a user preference or option.

If you attempt to copy the HTML poem in my last post, what do you find pasted into your text editor after ?

Curl at Tokyo's SCSK Corp has a Japanese web site here.

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