[nfbcs] LaTeX Question: How Do You Review Your Output?

[Rasmussen, Lloyd]

I don't know what you do about this, but ...
I have noticed on some PDF documents that TV Raman produced, presumably from LaTeX processes, that a number of glyphs appear in the PDF output that are ligature characters. These are character combinations such as fi, fl, ffi, ffl, li and probably a few more that I don't remember. They are represented by Unicode characters that are not pronounced by screen readers and probably not processed by braille translation software, either. They make the print look nicer, which is an objective of LaTeX as a publishing format. I don't know whether you could be successful in putting these into a JAWS character dictionary, but if you inspect them you will find that each has its own Unicode value.
I hope this helps, and perhaps explains what you are seeing.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20542   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of JooYoung Seo via nfbcs
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 10:40 PM
Cc: JooYoung Seo; 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
Subject: [nfbcs] LaTeX Question: How Do You Review Your Output?

                Hello All,

 

                I decided to use LaTeX for my graduate works instead of MS
word as it gives me more flexibility.

                But, I am struggling with reviewing the pdf output from the
LaTeX.

                Although the output pdf visually looks good, some words and
lines sound broken when I navigate it through with JAWS.

 

                It makes me confused sometimes. How do you guys tackle this
issue?

 

                Any tips would be deeply appreciated.

 

                Best Wishes,

 

                Joo

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