Fully Tagged PDF (even for math) is in the works for LaTeX

Posted Sep 22, 2025 18:49 UTC (Mon) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: Fully Tagged PDF (even for math) is in the works for LaTeX by notriddle
Parent article: Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement

You chose to use the one example of an error message that comes without a line number.

In all other error messages TeX's error messages consist of two lines. The first line has the line number and all characters that are read up to the error, the second line has the characters that are still to be processed.

But that is actually a bynote. You wrote

> tagged pdf or other niche features

Since journals (especial scientific journals that Lee wrote about) and other publishers increasingly demand the production of barrier free PDFs for online publication, Tagged PDF is not a niche feature, IMNSHO. Customers of mine currently pour 6-digit numbers of Euro in creation of such files. For private production it doesn't matter -- but for publication, it will soon be a must-have.