Ongoing Efforts to Generate “Tagged PDF” using pdfTeX
- Towards a Digital Mathematics Library. Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 8-9th, 2009, Publisher: Masaryk University Press(Brno), page 125-131
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topMoore, Ross. "Ongoing Efforts to Generate “Tagged PDF” using pdfTeX." Towards a Digital Mathematics Library. Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 8-9th, 2009. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2009. 125-131. <http://eudml.org/doc/220658>.
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abstract = {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.},
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- Thành, Hàn Thế, Thesis – pdfTeX, , published as: TUGboat, 21:4, (2000). http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents21-4.html (2000)
- Document Management – Electronic document file format for long term preservation – Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1), . http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=38920
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- Moore, Ross R., Advanced features for publishing mathematics, in PDF and on the Web, . TUGboat, 29:3, (2008), pp. 464–473. http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents29-3.html (2008)
- PDF/UA Universal Accessibility, ; websites at http://pdf.editme.com/pdfua and http://www.aiim.org/Standards/article.aspx?ID=27861.
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