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		_emacsomancer_ on April 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TeX Live 2019 Doesn't Xe(La)TeX/Lua(La)TeX produce PDFs with decent unicode search support? What issues do you have?

fxfan on April 30, 2019 [–]

XeTeX in particular does but my problem is with the uncertainty around the whole process and the frustration when a search fails on a 300 page document

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