Overrides no longer make <span> in Tagged PDF?

[Eric Forest]

In the past if I had a style override in InDesign, the overriding text would appear inside <span> tags in the PDF.

That no longer happens. The text with the override appears as it's own object (cardboard box) instead of the usual line by line, but that's it.

Wondering if anyone sees the same behaviour and knows why.

Here is the text with multiple overrides: a different font, pink and pink+bold

 

Here over in Acrobat, no <span> tags.

 

In the past, I would have expected aomething like this (in this case I manually added the <span> tag):

[Mike Witherell]

Eric,

I cannot tell by your initial post, but are you taking great care to use paragraph styles that are augmented by character styles for things like bold and italic? You will get cleaner tagging on export.

[Eric Forest]

Hi Mike,

I use character styles. Very very rarely do I miss a style overide.

the problem is not that I am seeing spans in my pdf. The "problem" (if it is one) is that I am not seeing them when doing things that "should" (read: previously would) insert spans.

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed and if this is expected.

[Willi Adelberger]

You should never manually override styles. Use ALWAYS Character Styles and work on their tags.

[Eric Forest]

That's right.

I was demonstrating that style overrides cause <span> tags. So I made one intentionally and...no span tag.

I am asking if anyone else has noticed this new behaviour.