On Jun 20, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Uwe Lueck wrote: > ... an idea deriving from discussions at the Munich TeX Stammtisch: > > LaTeX3 -- the future of LaTeX -- forever! Okay, given that, what would be the ideal document preamble to make the transition from 2e to 3 easier? I ask this 'cause after a lengthy set of discussions on the OS X TeX and texhax mailing lists I was able to help out a visually disabled user who was mystified by their underscores ``disappearing'' when using a screen reader (they were of course visible in the output, but since they were filled vector rectangles weren't read out) by having them add: > \usepackage{lmodern} > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > \usepackage{textcomp} to their preamble, then getting the underscores into their .pdf by prefacing them w/ the \string command. So I guess this has two questions: 1 - what is the optimal way to get non-standard characters like that into a text stream? 2 - would it be possible to create a suggested list of packages which will align insofar as is possible w/ how we envision LaTeX3's 2e compatibility mode, so as to ease the transition from 2e to 3? William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.