<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Mojca,<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Apr 2015, at 6:53 am, Mojca Miklavec <<a href="mailto:mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com" class="">mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Ross Moore wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">No standard TeX implementation currently comes close to producing Tagged PDF.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">ConTeXt MkIV does:<br class=""> <a href="https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb31-3/tb99hagen.pdf" class="">https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb31-3/tb99hagen.pdf</a><br class=""></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes; I’m aware of what Hans can achieve, and hold him in awe. :-)</div><div class="">Besides, this uses LuaTeX. viz. this quote from the end of Hans’ article.</div><div class="">
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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'CMR10'" class="">“Also, it is yet
another nice test case and torture test for LuaT</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'CMR10'; vertical-align: -2.000000pt" class="">E</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'CMR10'" class="">X
and it helps us to find buglets and oversights.” </span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="">That is precisely why I used the word “standard” qualifying “TeX installation” in my statement above.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class="">But of course that doesn't address the problem for LaTeXt users until<br class="">someone writes a suitable/comparable package (maybe someone did<br class="">already, I didn't try to follow).<br class=""></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have coding for much of what is needed, using the modified pdfTeX.</div><div class="">But there is a lot that still needs to be added; e.g. PDF’s table model,</div><div class="">References, footnotes, etc. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class="">Mojca<br class=""><br class="">PS: Our government is still mainly depending on documents with a "doc"<br class="">extension.<br class=""></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Right. Conversion to PDF requires Adobe’s converters.</div><div class="">There are known bugs — but this is doubtless being worked on.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The point is that, for people wishing to use TeX-based software to</div><div class="">produce PDFs, then extra converters or manual conversion techniques</div><div class="">(e.g., using Acrobat Pro) will be required to produce a valid PDF/UA document.</div><div class="">Unless, that is, our community takes this seriously and creates a major project.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another quote from Han’s article:</div><div class=""> <span style="font-family: CMR10; font-size: 10pt;" class="">“This is a typical case where more energy has to
be spent on driving the voice of Acrobat but I will
do that when we find a good reason.” </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That reason is getting much, much closer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Ross</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></body></html>