Sébastien Hinderer <[email protected]> writes:

> One thing that I was wondering: why is this experimented with pdflatex
> rather than lualatex which seems more future-looking?

It is both.
LuaLaTeX is easier as there is dedicated effort from LaTeX maintainers
for LuaLaTeX to support PDF tagging and PDF/UA2. However, the existing
PDFLaTeX documents may not be easy to convert to LuaLaTeX. So, having a
way to produce decent tagged PDF with PDFLaTeX is valuable.
During the last meetup Pedro mentioned one simple example - books
written in Org mode for pdflatex. They often contain all kinds of
pdflatex-specific typographical tweaks and cannot be converted to
lualatex. Having a way to make them accessible will be nice.

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