Abandoning preamble coding macros in favor of amsmath, unicode-math, and siunitx enabled successive error-free transcriptions¶

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q2 i? Only after the authors abandoned preamble coding macros and relied entirely on amsmath, unicode-math, and siunitx for all LaTeX math constructions could three different videos be transcribed in succession without compilation errors. → Looney 2026

Evidence¶

Looney 2026¶

Looney, C. W., & Duston, C. L. (2026). Using Gemini and LuaLaTeX to transcribe physics videos into PDF/UA-2 and ISO 32005 math-accessible PDFs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20733 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.20733

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Developmental-stage testing observation from Section 5.1: the authors report that "abandoning preamble coding macros" and relying on the three basic packages was the turning point for successive error-free transcriptions. No effect size is reported.

"Only after abandoning preamble coding macros and relying entirely on amsmath, unicode-math, and siunitx for all LaTeX math constructions did it become possible to transcribe three different videos in succession without compilation errors."

Discussion¶

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