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added  FS#5721  as related although its not really, but if its going to be fixed anyway it should fix both tasks.

Actually, from looking at  FS#5721  I suspect it’s exactly the same bug

In the pdfs it seems that the words in \setting{} macros are searchable if you exclude the first char in the word, so looking for “Playlist” a search for “laylist” would match. Since we use Title Case for settings the first char of every word is in a different font(size) than the others so this may be a limitation in the pdf format or pdflatex.
If we can’t work around this somehow I’d suggest we drop the Title Case, or if we want to keep that, the small caps style for the \setting{} macro and use some other style as searching is imho more important than aesthetics.

I looked in the soul package for fixing this a couple of days back. The results look quite promising, but currently this breaks on a few places, and I haven’t figured out why this happens. Creating small example tex files do work for the cases that break for the manual. Using soul also fixes the html issue and gives the possibility of using a background “marker” color if we find it to be appropriate, thus I’m strongly in favour of figuring why this breaks and fixing that :)

Interesting finding on this: you *can* search for the small caps strings, *if* you put a space after each capital letter – “m anage s ettings” finds the “Manage Settings” string. This works regardless if soul is used for small caps or not. When converting the pdf to txt using pdftotext there is clearly a space shown after captial letters. So it seems LaTeX puts a box between those letters.