From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15010 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthew Huggett Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt and the blind Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:44:14 +0900 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <407DCCCE.3020104@zam.att.ne.jp> References: <4E1ABA54-8E55-11D8-AE3A-00306544E64E@princeton.edu> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081986349 10244 80.91.224.253 (14 Apr 2004 23:45:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Apr 15 01:45:40 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 1BDu4a-0002Bb-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:45:40 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE45C10B5F; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:42:09 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from smtp2.att.ne.jp (smtp2.att.ne.jp [165.76.15.138]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F6310B54 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:40:58 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from zam.att.ne.jp (218.45.67.176.eo.eaccess.ne.jp [218.45.67.176]) by smtp2.att.ne.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF44125B95 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:44:16 +0900 (JST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, zh-cn, ja, zh-tw Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <4E1ABA54-8E55-11D8-AE3A-00306544E64E@princeton.edu> 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:15010 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15010 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 > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > >