Book feature Request -- keep indentation when copying code from pdf

[hlgchen]

It would be really helpful if indents were kept when copying code snippets from the pdf version of the book. (I don't know how to do it though).
This could enable readers to experiment with code snippets faster and encourage more such behavior.

[TikhonJelvis]

Thanks for pointing this out! This is helpful feedback because I didn't even think to test copy-pasting from the PDF.

Doing a cursory search online, looks like there is no reliable way to do this—copy-pasting behavior varies on different PDF viewers and hacks that work for one break others. I see two alternatives:

1. An HTML version of the book as an alternative to a PDF
2. Links to copyable code samples as suggested on the TeX Stack Exchange

I'll need to play around with some of our setup a bit to test the two options, so for now solving this will have to go on my to-do list.