From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15013 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Bowen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt and the blind Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:00:12 -0400 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <37008E1E-8EE5-11D8-B7B2-00306544E64E@princeton.edu> References: <4E1ABA54-8E55-11D8-AE3A-00306544E64E@princeton.edu> <407DCCCE.3020104@zam.att.ne.jp> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082037718 10087 80.91.224.253 (15 Apr 2004 14:01:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:01:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Apr 15 16:01:47 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 1BE7R5-0008D8-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:01:47 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E27810B3A; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:58:16 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F66410B3A for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:56:46 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([151.204.27.132]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040415140012.MQVV3003.out004.verizon.net@[192.168.0.2]> for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:00:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <407DCCCE.3020104@zam.att.ne.jp> Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [151.204.27.132] at Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:00:12 -0500 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:15013 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15013 Bill, Erik, and Matthew=97 Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will explore pdftotext and=20 the Acrobat =93Save As=94 options. One of the problems for all=97and = perhaps=20 it is insuperable=97is the ability of such reading software to present=20= phrases in foreign languages and mathematical expressions. I will=20 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=20 > "save as text" function do what you need? > > A much bigger solution would be to have your source as xml and then go=20= > 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=20= >> on the assumption that it will exist in both electronic form and in=20= >> print=97hence, it is produced using ConTeXt and exists natively in = PDF=20 >> files. This morning I was asked by a colleague who is totally blind=20= >> whether it would be possible to for him have ASCII or .txt files that=20= >> he could use easily with his screen reading software. (My sense is=20 >> that he may be able to use PDF files with this software, but that it=20= >> is not easy.) >> >> So, does anyone on the list have ideas about how to produce such=20 >> files from the files I currently have in hand or any experience with=20= >> this sort of problem? Is there, for instance, a way to strip away all=20= >> the formatting commands from a ConTeXt source file automatically so=20= >> as to leave an unencoded .txt file that I could send him? I gather=20 >> that he can use .htm files, but so far as I can tell there is no path=20= >> from a ConTeXt source file to an HTML file=97at least, a specific = query=20 >> about this made recently on this list by someone else seems to have=20= >> gone unanswered. >> >> Cheers, Alan >> _______________________________________________ >> ntg-context mailing list >> ntg-context@ntg.nl >> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >