From cc993ca40da93ba0a7f62e4bd22360d0f807a837 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Mako Hill Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:14:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] README: document lualatex requirement and accessibility status Adds texlive-luatex to the Debian dependency list, documents the switch to LuaLaTeX + EB Garamond/TeX Gyre Heros, and adds a new Accessibility section describing which templates produce tagged PDF/UA-2 output and why the memoir-based templates don't (yet). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 --- README | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index e219e29..1b0b75a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -33,20 +33,38 @@ git format-patch to generate patch files to send by email: On Debian or Ubuntu, install the following packages: * latexmk + * texlive-luatex * texlive-latex-recommended * texlive-fonts-extra * texlive-fonts-recommended * texlive-bibtex-extra - apt install latexmk texlive-latex-recommended \ + apt install latexmk texlive-luatex texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended \ texlive-bibtex-extra On other systems, installing a full TeX Live distribution should provide everything needed. -The templates make extensive use of the URW Garamond font, available from -CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/urw-garamond +All four templates build with LuaLaTeX (via latexmk -lualatex). The text +fonts are EB Garamond (provided by texlive-fonts-extra) and TeX Gyre +Heros. + +================================ +=== Accessibility ============== +================================ + +The letter and poster templates produce PDF/UA-2 compliant tagged PDFs +via the LaTeX tagging project (\DocumentMetadata + tagpdf). You can +verify compliance with verapdf: https://verapdf.org/ + +The paper and assignment templates are based on the memoir class, which +is not yet compatible with the LaTeX tagged-PDF code. They load the +pdfmanagement-testphase layer for PDF metadata only. When memoir gains +tagging support upstream, the commented-out \DocumentMetadata and tagpdf +lines in each template can be re-enabled. See: + + https://github.com/latex3/tagging-project/issues/910 ================================ === Branches ===================