On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> wrote:

rm> ... test the full name
(including °ТРЬ.°ТРЫs) first, for a datbase entry. If found, use it.
Otherwise, try again using just the prefix (as at present).

That surely sounds sensible.

Or in case a name is multiply qualified; e.g.,
delta.sc.ipa (occurs in cmu-tipx.enc ) also
omega.sc.ipa q.sc.ipa f.sc.ipa
then drop off the qualifications from the end.
So test in order: delta.sc.ipa delta.sc delta

Ack.

Thanh, can you confirm that we should go ahead with this plan?

I think it's reasonable to have this behavior possible.

However, Iet's say we have

\textsc{This is a heading}

What is the common expectation when one does copy/paste this text from a pdf viewer?

I personally expect to get the same text, not the unicode points for the *.sc glyphs from the actual font.

This brings up another question: perhaps we can add the behavior proposed by Ross, but it has to be enabled explicitly via a primitive?

Regards,

Thanh