Experiment in pdf

I have posted in the 'help forum' an idea which should enable people to copy pdf files into their blog. I shall now try and see whether my own idea works; what follows should be (pretty much) the original, and my translation of, a poem by the Greek poet Yannis Varveris, which I had only in pdf.:

Yannis Varveris

OI EPARKEIS ANAGNWSTES

Ebgala evna biblivo

kai to xevrw apevxw.

Esuv livga diabavzeiV

ligovtera katalabaivneiV.

Giv autov ki egwv to diabavzw ap thn archv

me ta dikav sou mualav.

«Wraivo biblivo» levw

«ki aV mhn to polukatalabaivnw

telikav kalav kavnw

kai ton agapw».

Complementary Readers

I published a book

and I know it by heart.

You read little

understand less.

So I read it right from the start

using your brains.

‘Nice book,’ I say;

‘Never mind if I don’t understand:

really, I’m right

to love him so much.’

Hmm. Yes. As I feared, the Greek has come out a touch garbled. A space has been inserted after every accented character; probably because the original font used had automatic back-spacing accents. However, for most purposes it should work. Anyone interested will find my explanation somewhere in the help forum.