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

[Shawn Young]

Thanks Albert,


> >
> > 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?

I don't have the capability to enter a special character directly into the
search window.  I have tried typing "omega" for instance when I wanted to
search for the lowercase letter omega and I've tried using LaTeX notation
\omega.  Neither works.  I tried the same in acrobat at your suggestion and
was not able to get it to locate either.  Is there some sort of code that
okular recognizes that will allow me to search for special characters?

> > 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.

OK, I only wish I had the skill to offer to help.  The way I deal with it
now is to highlight each line separately.  The biggest problem there is that
I must go back and reselect the yellow highlighter every line.  Is there a
way to tell okular to stay in highlighter mode until told other wise?  That
would simplify things, or if that isn't available yet, is there a keyboard
shortcut allowing me to reselect the highlight function without needing to
move the mouse back and forth across the page?

I want to emphasize that regardless of whether any of this is possible, I
really appreciate your work and find it useful.

Thanks,

Shawn

> Albert

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




-- 
Shawn Young
SpacePhys at Gmail.com
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