From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15014 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill McClain Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt and the blind Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:24:32 -0500 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20040415092432.00f657f6@atipa.local> References: <4E1ABA54-8E55-11D8-AE3A-00306544E64E@princeton.edu> <407DCCCE.3020104@zam.att.ne.jp> <37008E1E-8EE5-11D8-B7B2-00306544E64E@princeton.edu> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082038800 13027 80.91.224.253 (15 Apr 2004 14:20:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:20:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Apr 15 16:19:51 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BE7iZ-0001Dx-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:19:51 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F87410B3A; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:16:20 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6813A10B38 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:14:30 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from 0-1pool121-100.nas9.cedar-rapids1.ia.us.da.qwest.net ([67.1.121.100] helo=atipa.local) by smtp6.mindspring.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BE7gT-0008HY-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from atipa.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atipa.local (Postfix) with SMTP id 30DA339CBD for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:24:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <37008E1E-8EE5-11D8-B7B2-00306544E64E@princeton.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-suse-linux) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15014 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15014 On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:00:12 -0400 Alan Bowen wrote: > Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will explore pdftotext and > the Acrobat _Save As_ options. Another issue with these methods is that the header and footer information on each page will be included, which could be irritating or helpful, depending on the application. > One of the problems for all_and perhaps > it is insuperable_is the ability of such reading software to present > phrases in foreign languages and mathematical expressions. I haven't done any XML writing, but I think that would be the superior approach. If special elements of the text are tagged, then they could be translated appropriately for the blind reader. I use a text-to-speech program for proofing some of my documents and have found it helpful to filter the original text and emit a coded version which makes it easy for the speech program to read, and easier for me to understand. I'll have it say "quote", "endquote", "italics", etc. I'm working from the Context source directly, but XML sources could be used similarly, and there are lots of XML tools in the world. -Bill -- Sattre Press History of Astronomy http://sattre-press.com/ During the 19th Century info@sattre-press.com by Agnes M. Clerke http://sattre-press.com/han.html