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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by dls2016 on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:42PM (#20192346)
As a developer I know this is bad, but I’m not familiar with accessibility tools. Surely this is a result of the compilation of the TeX source, right? In theory it seems like a text-based format would be more amenable to processing by screen readers and the like.

What can authors do to make their documents more accessible? Distribute the source? Stick to some formatting guidelines?

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by CJefferson on Sunday June 16, 2019 @02:27AM (#20194130)
The best thing authors can do is distribute their latex.

In fact, concretely, upload your paper to arxiv which will demand the latex source of your paper.

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by dls2016 on Sunday June 16, 2019 @10:34PM (#20199356)
In my academic mathematician life the path was clear: write a paper, place on the arXiv then submit. However I have sets of notes I'd like to put out there (some day), but are in much too fluid of a condition to commit to the arXiv.
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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by wodenokoto on Saturday June 15, 2019 @06:23PM (#20192553)
I haven’t seen it lately, but there was a time where it was common for latex systems to not use space characters and instead add extra spacing after the last character in every word, because apparently that looked better ...
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