From: Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt and the blind
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:00:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37008E1E-8EE5-11D8-B7B2-00306544E64E@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <407DCCCE.3020104@zam.att.ne.jp>
Bill, Erik, and Matthew—
Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will explore pdftotext and
the Acrobat “Save As” options. 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 will
report to you at least on what I discover.
Best, Alan
On Apr 14, 2004, at 7:44 PM, Matthew Huggett wrote:
> You'd have to do it a file at a time, but does the Acrobat Reader's
> "save as text" function do what you need?
>
> A much bigger solution would be to have your source as xml and then go
> from there to ConTeXt and pdf or straight to plain text via XSLT.
>
> Matt
>
>
> Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>> I have very recently launched a new journal which has been designed
>> on the assumption that it will exist in both electronic form and in
>> print—hence, it is produced using ConTeXt and exists natively in PDF
>> files. This morning I was asked by a colleague who is totally blind
>> whether it would be possible to for him have ASCII or .txt files that
>> he could use easily with his screen reading software. (My sense is
>> that he may be able to use PDF files with this software, but that it
>> is not easy.)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Cheers, Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-15 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-14 20:50 Alan Bowen
2004-04-14 22:20 ` Bill McClain
2004-04-15 11:06 ` Erik Hetzner
2004-04-14 23:44 ` Matthew Huggett
2004-04-15 14:00 ` Alan Bowen [this message]
2004-04-15 14:24 ` Bill McClain
2004-04-15 15:32 ` Jan Hlavacek
2004-04-15 20:47 ` Hans Hagen
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