Re: PDF bookmarks and special insertions & characters

[Sebastian Urban]

> > > 1.  In my "test" texi file there is a line:
> > >    @chapter ``Some text'' and the rest of the @TeX{} text
> > >
> > > The point is, when I export file to PDF (texi2pdf --tidy test.texi,
> > > with @documentencoding UTF-8), the bookmark that is created (PDF
> > > bookmarks) has ``Some text'', while I was hoping for “Some text”
> > > (curved quotes).
> > >
> > > I can "fix" it like this:
> > >    @chapter “Some text” ....
> > >
> > > ("fix" in this case means getting "Some text" in the bookmarks, which
> > > is at least ASCII style quoting convention, i.e. it's better)
> > >
> > > but is there any way to stick to the ``..'' convention?
> >
> > It would have to be implemented.  The problem is that the PDF format
> > uses UTF-16 internally for the bookmarks, so using curly quotes 
here is
> > quite difficult.  Hence we are stuck with ASCII in the bookmarks.  I
> > guess that " is better than `` but this may also be difficult to
> > implement.  `` is a ligature in the fonts used that is a curvy double
> > quote but the PDF bookmarks are completely separate - you'd need to
> > change the two tokens `` to something else somehow.
>
> In this case, I'm not sure if any of the two options is really worth
> it.  While effort for curly quotes can be considered, changing one
> ASCII for another is not worth it in my opinion.  Changing `` to “ for
> sections in source file seems to be much simpler, so I think it's the
> best out of three of them.
>
> Perhaps a "line" about this special case of “...” instead of ``...''
> could be placed somewhere in Texinfo manual?  (Just a suggestion.)

What is the status here?  Do you still consider working on it, or -
as I noted - is it to much effort, for too little gain, i.e. not
really worth it?


S. U.