<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Thanks, Brian, for your reply to:</div><div> Re: OT: Copying text from PDF to text on Mac corrupts words containing “t"</div><div><br></div><div>(The ligature treatment could explain why only this one poster’s emails have that problem.)</div><div><br></div><div>I was producing minutes for an online meeting we had for a Board of Trustees. We would not have been able to get a quorum in time to meet a deadline, and we just had to discuss and approve the sending of a grant request. There were over 100 emails over 37 hours. It worked out well, considering, but of course that’s not the best way.</div><div><br></div><div><b>What I’d really like</b> would be a <b>forum application</b> especially friendly for a meeting involving discussions, motions, seconds and votes, where people can check in asynchronously.</div><div><br></div><div>I imagine something like the following:</div><div><ul><li>Chair creates a “Meeting” entry that will collect all discussion.</li><li>A fixed list of user names is entered.</li><li>Members can pop in and out, over several days.</li><li>Each time member joins, a web page is presented displaying all discussion to date for that meeting. Member would scroll to the bottom to proceed.</li><li>It can produce a page formatted for printing. That page would look rather like output from a chat. It would be only plain or rich text, *not* be formatted as a table or have structural features that would complicate copying and pasting, because producing the document is an important purpose.</li><li>Some sort of timestamps would be nice, but should be unobtrusive.</li></ul></div><div>Does anybody know a forum service that might come close?</div><div><br></div><div>I’ve looked at some summary pages for online meeting tools, but they don’t go into much detail, so I’ll have to visit each one.</div><div>I might also look at enjin which is really for gamers but that’s not a problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Victor</div><div>___________</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Jan 9, 2016, at 19:17:50, Brian Cluff <<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com">brian@snaptek.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>On 01/09/2016 05:26 PM, Victor Odhner wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Many words containing “ti” or “tt” or some other combinations with<br>the letter “t” get corrupted when I use copy and paste, from PDF<br>text that looks normal. Some software interprets the PDF correctly<br>for display and printing, and some software fails to understand this<br>encoding involving the letter “t”.<br></blockquote><br>My best guess would be that they are using some form of font ligature so<br>that tt, ti and probably ff fi etc etc get transformed into a different<br>unicode character that doesn't exist in the font that the application<br>that you are pasting to is using.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Of course if someone can tell me a better way to save Thunderbird<br>messages with headers into a document...<br></blockquote><br>Just right click on the message and select "Save As". In the lower left<br>corner change "All Files" to "Text Files", then make sure to change the<br>file name suffix to .txt and you should get a clean text copy complete<br>with the headers.<br><br>Brian Cluff<br>---------------------------------------------------<br>PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br><a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br></div></div><br></body></html>