Ihor Radchenko (2026/07/10 17:28 +0000): > 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.
Makes sense, thanks. > 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. Understood. Just for the sake of completeness, let me say that as a blind user my preference would be to have access to the original document as I expect it to be muhc more readable than many derived formats. I realise this may not be true for everybody, and also that authors may not want to share their sources. I still wanted to bring this to the conversation so that peoplealso have this possibility in mind. For researhc papers and books for instance, I way prefer reading LaTeX sources than anything else.
