[Okular-devel] Searching for special characters and highlighting a single column on double column page

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns, 12 de juliol de 2010, Shawn Young va escriure:
> Hi,

Hi

> 
>     I first want to note that I really appreciate the work that you are
> putting into okular, I think it is a wonderful product.  I have two
> questions.
> 
> 1.  I often use okular to read technical papers that have multiple special
> characters in them, sometimes I want to do a search using these characters.
> I have not yet been able to discover any way to do this, is it possible, if
> so how?

Type the special character in the search field? Does it work if you do the 
same in Acroread?

> 2.  I also use the highlight features a great deal.  The papers that I read
> are double columned.  When I do a search Okular seems to understand the
> double columned nature of the papers as it will first move through the left
> column and then the right column.  However, I have not bee able to discover
> any way to get it to recognize the double columned nature of the paper when
> I do highlighting.  If I try to highlight multiple lines in one column it
> also highlights the same lines on the second column as if they were one
> line.  Is there something I need to do to get the highlighting to work only
> on a single column or is this functionality not yet available?

The functionality is not there yet, it will need someone to help implementing 
it and sincerely have no idea how difficult it will be to do it.

Albert

> 
> Thanks again for all your efforts,
> 
> Shawn