Re: Support alt text in LaTeX output

Patrice Dumas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 06:10:30PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> It appears that Patrice has implemented output of the "alt" attribute for
> images from texi2any in LaTeX output (yesterday, 2026-08-05).  Are you able to 
> test it from the Texinfo git repository to see if that is enough for you
> to be easily able to make "accessible" PDF files in the format you require?
> 
> That to me would be the first thing to check before we discuss other possible
> changes to the output.

I did all the changes that allow to process the LaTeX produced with
tagging for the Texinfo manual, with lualatex.  I added LATEX_TAGGED_PDF
to add the preamble, as described here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2026-08/msg00002.html

and I did other things, too, described here, which are all improvements:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2026-08/msg00003.html

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Pat
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