From 2d244c7180a18801ebdf82ae3c8dcee078d9f4e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 09:44:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] LaTeX writer: allow alt text in figure to wrap.

Closes #11924.
---
 src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/LaTeX.hs | 3 ++-
 test/Tests/Writers/LaTeX.hs      | 4 ++--
 test/command/5116.md             | 9 ++++++---
 test/command/6821.md             | 3 ++-
 test/command/7181.md             | 3 ++-
 5 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/LaTeX.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/LaTeX.hs
index 5a06c6e2e..e02b96565 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/LaTeX.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/LaTeX.hs
@@ -1205,7 +1205,8 @@ inlineToLaTeX (Image attr@(_,_,kvs) description (source, _)) = do
                   _ -> ["keepaspectratio"]) <>
                 maybe [] (\x -> ["page=" <> literal x]) (lookup "page" kvs) <>
                 maybe [] (\x -> ["trim=" <> literal x]) (lookup "trim" kvs) <>
-                maybe [] (\x -> ["alt=" <> braces (literal x)]) mbalt <>
+                maybe [] (\x -> ["alt=" <>
+                              braces (hsep $ map literal $ T.words x)]) mbalt <>
                 maybe [] (const ["clip"]) (lookup "clip" kvs)
       options = if null optList
                    then empty
diff --git a/test/Tests/Writers/LaTeX.hs b/test/Tests/Writers/LaTeX.hs
index e2157e604..801e1afcb 100644
--- a/test/Tests/Writers/LaTeX.hs
+++ b/test/Tests/Writers/LaTeX.hs
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ tests = [ testGroup "code blocks"
             "\\begin{description}\n\\item[foo] ~ \n\\subsection{bar}\n\nbaz\n\\end{description}"
           , "containing image" =:
             header 1 (image "imgs/foo.jpg" "" (text "Alt text")) =?>
-            "\\section{\\texorpdfstring{\\protect\\pandocbounded{\\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={Alt text}]{imgs/foo.jpg}}}{Alt text}}"
+            "\\section{\\texorpdfstring{\\protect\\pandocbounded{\\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={Alt\ntext}]{imgs/foo.jpg}}}{Alt text}}"
           ]
         , testGroup "inline code"
           [ "struck out and highlighted" =:
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ tests = [ testGroup "code blocks"
             (plain $ image (pack "img.jpg") (pack "") (text "alt text"))
             =?>
               "\\begin{figure}[htbp]\n\\centering\n"
-              <> "\\pandocbounded{\\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={alt text}]{img.jpg}}\n"
+              <> "\\pandocbounded{\\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={alt\ntext}]{img.jpg}}\n"
               <> "\\caption{caption}\n\\end{figure}"
           ]
         ]
diff --git a/test/command/5116.md b/test/command/5116.md
index 5a57f0716..a66178f5d 100644
--- a/test/command/5116.md
+++ b/test/command/5116.md
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
 ^D
 \begin{figure}
 \centering
-\pandocbounded{\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={This is a figure.}]{img.jpg}}
+\pandocbounded{\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={This is a
+figure.}]{img.jpg}}
 \caption{This is a figure.}
 \end{figure}
 
@@ -50,7 +51,8 @@ Right & Left & Center & Default \\
 \begin{figure}
 \centering
 \caption{This is a figure.}
-\pandocbounded{\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={This is a figure.}]{img.jpg}}
+\pandocbounded{\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={This is a
+figure.}]{img.jpg}}
 \end{figure}
 
 \begin{longtable}[]{@{}rlcl@{}}
@@ -86,7 +88,8 @@ Right & Left & Center & Default \\
 ^D
 \begin{figure}
 \centering
-\pandocbounded{\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={This is a figure.}]{img.jpg}}
+\pandocbounded{\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={This is a
+figure.}]{img.jpg}}
 \caption{This is a figure.}
 \end{figure}
 
diff --git a/test/command/6821.md b/test/command/6821.md
index c38953248..61224dd5d 100644
--- a/test/command/6821.md
+++ b/test/command/6821.md
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@
 
 \begin{figure}
 \centering
-\pandocbounded{\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={This is a test x = 5}]{test.png}}
+\pandocbounded{\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,alt={This is a test x =
+5}]{test.png}}
 \caption{This is a test
 \protect\VERB|\NormalTok{x }\OperatorTok{=} \DecValTok{5}|}
 \end{figure}
diff --git a/test/command/7181.md b/test/command/7181.md
index 6915e9991..74857dbc5 100644
--- a/test/command/7181.md
+++ b/test/command/7181.md
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 ^D
 \begin{figure}
 \centering
-\pandocbounded{\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,page=13,trim=1cm,clip,width=4cm,alt={Global frog population.}]{slides.pdf}}
+\pandocbounded{\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,page=13,trim=1cm,clip,width=4cm,alt={Global
+frog population.}]{slides.pdf}}
 \caption{Global frog population.}
 \end{figure}