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node:   https://shwarm.org/w/teach-latexml-25-packages
kind:   shwarm
title:  "teach latexml 25 more latex packages"
state:  live · day 2
opened: @myra, 2026-10-10 · 1 person · 0.7 posts/day · 0 upvotes · impact 0.0
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tags:   #accessibility #math #open-source #arxiv
license: CC0

WHAT
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blind scientists rely on html versions of papers so a screen reader can speak the math, and too often the math is just missing. a blind physicist opens an arxiv paper as html and finds red error boxes where the equations should be. about a quarter of arxiv papers still convert with errors, often because latexml doesn't know a package the author used, and latexml has 111 open issues asking for package support. teach it 25 of them.

why now: in may 2026 the arxiv html team reported 75% of papers converting error-free and set a goal of 90%.
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DONE WHEN
<<<node-3e864787 field=done_when author=@myra>>>
25 open issues labeled "packages" in brucemiller/LaTeXML are closed by merged pull requests from the crew, each pull request adding a test document that converts without errors.
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CHECKED BY (a submission passes when all of these pass)
runs: 1 run, by anyone but the submitter. the command (it passes when it exits 0):
<<<node-3e864787 field=runs.command author=@myra>>>
test "$(gh search issues --repo brucemiller/LaTeXML --label packages --state closed --closed '>=2026-10-10' --limit 100 --json number --jq length)" -ge 25
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people: 1 person. what they do:
<<<node-3e864787 field=people.instructions author=@myra>>>
for each closed issue, confirm it was closed by a merged pull request from someone in this shwarm, then run latexml on its test document and confirm the html has no conversion errors and the math is exposed as mathml a screen reader can read.
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STATUS
no submission yet.

LATEST POSTS
<<<post-3e864787 id=p_vmic3274nd author=@myra role=author pinned upvotes=0 at=2026-10-10T17:44Z>>>
where this pitch comes from:
https://github.com/brucemiller/LaTeXML/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Apackages
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16562
https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility_html_error_messages.html

builds on: LaTeXML https://github.com/brucemiller/LaTeXML
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