Re: ANN: pandoc 2.10

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/6095
and fuller discussion at
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5409

Bottom line is that making fully accessible PDFs via LaTeX is still a bit
out of reach.

The most promising package is tagpdf, but its documentation says
"This package is not meant for normal document production.
You need a current expl3 version to use it, you even need the
(experimental) l3str- convert."

It's an unfortunate situation, but I don't think pandoc can do
more until the LaTeX tooling is there...

I have now noticed this
http://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/accessibility/accessibility.pdf
which seems pretty new, but I haven't tried it.  But not
encouraging to hear the problems they acknowledge in the
manual, e.g. you can't have formatted text in headings.

"'andre...-32lpuo7BZBA@public.gmane.org' via pandoc-discuss"
<pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Thanks 
> Any plans to add native support for "alt text" when converting markdwon to 
> pdf?
> Currently, i either have to learn another language (Lua) or convert to word 
> first, then to pdf.
> Neither of which are optimal
> cheers
>
> On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 1:22:28 AM UTC-4 John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm pleased to announce the release of pandoc 2.10,
>> available in the usual places:
>>
>> Binary packages & changelog:
>> https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/2.10
>>
>> Source & API documentation:
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-2.10
>>
>> Some highlights:
>>
>> * Pandoc can now be compiled with ghc 8.10.
>>
>> * A native Underline constructor for Inline (#6277, Vaibhav Sagar)
>> and more consistent treatment of underlined text in readers
>> and writers.
>>
>> * More expressive types for tables (#1024, Christian Despres).
>> Tables can now take attributes; and rowspans and colspans,
>> column headers, multiple row headers, table head and foot
>> can all be represented. (Note, however, that reader and
>> writer support for these features is still lacking, so
>> most users won't see any differences in table conversion
>> yet. These changes just lay the foundation for further
>> improvements.)
>>
>> * Templates can now use the pipes `first`, `rest`, `last`, and
>> `allbutlast` on arrays.
>>
>> * A new `--no-check-certificate` option to disable certificate
>> validation when resources are fetched by HTTP (#6156, Cédric Couralet,
>> Cécile Chemin, Juliette Fourcot).
>>
>> * Boolean fields now work in metadata within defaults files
>> (Nikolay Yakimov, #6328).
>>
>> * The `implicit_figures` extension now works with commonmark
>> and gfm (#6350).
>>
>> * We now target version 4.x of reveal.js. File locations have
>> changed, so if you are using pandoc-produced reveal.js files
>> with a local copy of reveal.js, you will need to upgrade.
>>
>> * epub.css has changed to wrap overlong lines in highlighted code
>> blocks (#6242). This fixes a problem in iBooks v2.4 with our earlier
>> horizontally scrolling code blocks. The problem seems to
>> be a bug in iBooks, not pandoc, but since iBooks is a major
>> target we're changing pandoc's default behavior so that
>> pandoc-produced epubs work on that platform.
>>
>> * Many other bug fixes and small improvements (see the changelog
>> for details).
>>
>> API changes:
>>
>> * New Underline constructor for Inline and new Table types for Block.
>>
>> * Use new type PandocLua for all pandoc Lua operations.
>>
>> * Use PandocError for exceptions in Lua subsystem.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone who contributed, and especially Christian Despres for
>> creating the new table types and modifying the whole code base to use it,
>> Vaibhav Sagar for implenting the Underline constructor, Mathieu Boespflug 
>> for
>> improving the DocBook reader, Joseph C. Sible for many code improvements 
>> and
>> some important fixes to Text.Pandoc.UUID, and Albert Krewinkel for work on 
>> the
>> lua subsystem, Jira reader and writer, Org reader and writer, and JATS 
>> reader.
>> Thanks, as well, to those who have raised issues, participated in 
>> discussions,
>> and helped to triage bugs.
>>
>
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