Dear Pablo Thanks for the quick response. I'm only just starting and many of the questions, as I say, will answer themselves when I get into the documentation properly. I'm sure pstricks will be workable (\usemodule[pstricks] doesn't generate an error, but when you actually try to use pstricks it fails - but there will be another way). Edmac is not likely to be needed for the books I have in mind, but it is essential for editions that I typeset from time to time with XeTeX and I don't think anything else will give me the same control (surprisingly, in ConText it seems to halt on encountering \newinsert - another TeX primitive that I often use for other purposes but which must have a differently named equivalent in Context). \umirtenpointsevenfive is just my own invented name forthe MinionPro typeface at 10.75pt with the features that you saw in my example (old-style numerals etc.) - but I'm sure Context's own system of calling specific font sizes will become clear to me shortly. All that aside, it is definitely the tagging that I want to get working - my XeTeX-produced PDFs have no tagging, and automated tagging tools produce absolutely nothing - that won't be acceptable to repositories such as Perspectivia, which now quite rightly insists on PDFs that are compliant with the latest accessibility legislation. I will try not to bombard the list with childish questions, though - there is much I need to learn quietly on my own before I can get a successfully formatted (and hopefully tagged) chapter, at which point I will no doubt need help with fine-tuning the output. Best wishes John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні! * 🇺🇦* http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail Virus-free.www.avg.com http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 at 14:41, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
On 6/14/25 12:37, John Was wrote:
Good day, Contexters
Hi John,
welcome to the mailing list.
I've been using plain TeX for many years (EmTeX, if anyone can remember that, and latterly XeTeX), but my motivation for getting acquainted with ConText, rather late in life, is the need to produce tagged PDFs that will be accessible to the visually impaired (generally using an audio reader), and I understand (or at least hope) that ConText can help with that.
PDF tagging is being added to ConTeXt. This means that some features may need to be added yet.
I'm only just getting started with the /Not so Short Introduction/, and of course have many questions which I think/hope I will be able to answer myself from the documentation: I've not managed to load pstricks or edmac,
As for pstricks (never used it), I have just found that there is a module `m-pstrick', but it doesn’t work with LuaMetaTeX.
I couldn’t make it work with LuaTeX either (sample from
https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/ntg-context@ntg.nl/message/RJR7MRTPR7S3... ).
edmac is almost three decades old. If you want
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wujastyk/edmac/refs/heads/main/Wujastyk%20... , this should be achievable with ConTeXt (no modules needed).
for example, but this must be possible, and some primitives such as \baselineskip seem to have disappeared
LuaMetaTeX happens to have a primitive with the same name, https://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/luametatex.pdf#page=93.
together with the fontcall system I'm used to:
\font\umirtenpointsevenfive = "MinionPro-Regular:+onum:mapping=tex- text:letterspace=1.6" at 10.75pt
Not clear to me what the second command (after `\font`) means in plain English.
[...] With my XeTeX-produced PDFs an audio reader will simply read all of the main text on a page, then the footnotes (the last of which may be split between pages), and then start again on the next page - clearly annoying and unacceptable to those who can't see the PDF.
This is probably due to a poorly tagged PDF document (my guess).
I'd be most grateful to be pointed in the right direction - or is what I've outlined simply not achievable?
I think LuaLaTeX may achieve that too (for your info).
Not sure whether our tagging is that far now (with notes).
I hope it helps,
Pablo
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