Recently PDF has been accepted as a standard for production of electronic documents, as ISO 32000-1:2008, with an acronym of PDF/UA (for “Universal Accessibility”). The second draft ISO 32000-2:2009 is to include specifications for including MathML tagging of mathematical environments and expressions. This talk presents a report on work-in-progress, aimed at: developing the primitive commands for pdfTeX needed to support the production of fully tagged PDF documents; writing appropriate TeX and LaTeX macros to make effective use of the new primitives; authoring changes to internal LaTeX structures to use these macros automatically at appropriate places within the existing code-base for LaTeX. This is work that is being undertaken together with Hàn Thế Thành, author of pdfTeX [Thành, Hàn Thế; Thesis – pdfTeX, published as: TUGboat, 21:4, (2000). http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents21-4.html], who has added some new primitive commands to an experimental version of this software tool.
@article{702553,
title = {Ongoing Efforts to Generate ``Tagged PDF'' using~pdfTeX},
booktitle = {Towards a Digital Mathematics Library. Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 8-9th, 2009},
series = {GDML\_Books},
publisher = {Masaryk University Press},
address = {Brno, Czech Republic},
year = {2009},
pages = {125-131},
zbl = {1176.68231},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/702553}
}
Moore, Ross. Ongoing Efforts to Generate “Tagged PDF” using pdfTeX, dans Towards a Digital Mathematics Library. Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 8-9th, 2009, GDML_Books, (2009), pp. 125-131. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/702553/
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