Re: Support alt text in LaTeX output

Patrice Dumas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 08:46:56PM +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> the pdftitle and  alt text in includegraphics in the end have to be a PDF
> encoded string with no markup, so
> over the years latex has got better at "cleaning up text" basically now any
> unicode text should work, the only characters that you need to quote are %
> { }

Seems like _ needs to be quoted too.  Maybe general text protection
needs to be done, so also protecting $#, or even ~.

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Pat
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