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"Cut and paste" section name in bookmarks (PDF, Emacs manual)

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From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 41117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41117: "Cut and paste" section name in bookmarks (PDF, Emacs manual)
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 18:51:06 +0200

Alright, back from Texinfo.

Thread link:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2020-05/msg00031.html

Here is the important part:

>> 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.

And few days later:

> I'm not planning on working on this soon.  It would be messy to 
implement
> and quotation marks in chapter titles are rare anyway.


So... can't we have one exception?  As I wrote, it's in @section, so
it could be special case - one special case.


S. U.

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