Re: ConTeXt and the blind

[Jan Hlavacek <jhlavacek@sf.edu>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:50:04PM -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:

> So, does anyone on the list have ideas about how to produce such files 
> from the files I currently have in hand or any experience with this 
> sort of problem? Is there, for instance, a way to strip away all the 
> formatting commands from a ConTeXt source file automatically so as to 
> leave an unencoded .txt file that I could send him? I gather that he 
> can use .htm files, but so far as I can tell there is no path from a 
> ConTeXt source file to an HTML file?at least, a specific query about 
> this made recently on this list by someone else seems to have gone 
> unanswered.

There is a utility called untex, that strips LaTeX formating from a tex
file.  I didn't test it with ConTeXt, but it may work too.  If you can
produce a dvi file, there is couple of programs: dvi2tty  and catdvi
that can extract text from a dvi file,  Finally, pdftotext, which I
believe is a part of the xpdf package, can extract text from many pdf
files. 

Finally, there is a program called tex2page, that convert TeX to html.
Unlike latex2html, it can handle at least some plain TeX, so it may be
possible to use it on ConTeXt files.  Again, I didn't try it.  If you
want to experiment with it, it is at
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/tex2page/tex2page-doc.html

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