William F Hammond gellmu at gmail.com On Thu Mar 10 03:49:58 CET 2022 William F Hammond gellmu at gmail.com wrote the following on this subject. "LaTeX as we know it needs support, and work on LaTeXML and TeX4ht needs to continue. That work can become easier as better LaTeX documents are written."
I agree with this, especially the part about "better LaTeX documents...." But I have a question. Valuable LaTeX documents often describe research that has cost a lot of time and effort on the part of researchers as well as monetary and other costs on the part of supporting institutions. My question is whether any extra effort required to make these documents more amenable to existing tools for automatic conversion to other formats, including accessible ones, would add significantly to their total cost. It doesn't make sense to me that researchers who have the resources to do valuable research wouldn't be willing to follow available standards to ensure the usefulness of the documentation.
