Re: Support alt text in LaTeX output

On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 07:04:11PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > I had to keep amsfonts even with unicode-math for \circledR.  I also
> > replaced the use of mdframed by tcolorbox, which is an improvement. 
> 
> Could the change from mdframed to tcolorbox be worth mentioning in NEWS
> in case this affects dependencies etc.?

I do not think that it is needed as it is a well established package.

> I see this is recommended online in the context of "LaTeX tagging":
> 
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/761162/why-does-documentmetadata-conflict-with-package-mdframed
> https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/tagging-status/
> 
> I noticed that the output of @cartouche in LaTeX now has a shaded background,
> and the panel borders seem thicker.  I assume these are the default settings
> for tcolorbox, as it doesn't appear that texi2any specifies any background in
> its output:
> 
>     % the tcolorbox environment for @cartouche
>     \newtcolorbox{Texinfocartouche}[1][]{arc=10pt,#1}
> 
> I assume we should leave the output with the tcolorbox defaults, even though
> this is a change in the appearance of the texi2any output.

Such change in appearance seems to me to be in the bound of what we can
change at will.

> The user can always
> add extra settings to change the appearance if they want to.

As a side note, I personnally think that the new appearance is better.
And the title looks also better, in my opinion, not that it really
matters.

> OK to remove the "arc=10pt" parameter?

Ok for me.

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Pat