Re: [NTG-context] roadmap

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:53 AM, wrote:

Message: 3 Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 23:26:28 +0200 From: Hans Hagen To: Henning Hraban Ramm , mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] roadmap Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed

On 5/14/2018 9:36 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Hi Hans, thank you so much!

Keep up the good work!

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* PDF/* (X, A, UA - probably only reasonable with external tools, but it seems like there’s not a lot that’s usable)

we support various formats (to some extend the backend even adapts to it) ... tagged pdf ... already there for quite a while but i never had any demand for it so i never really check the current state (also because imo it's a it weird feature ... only there because publishers don't want to distribute sources that are suitable for rendering variations ... so we're stuck with some pseudo structure related to visuals)

(i might upgrade tagging and exports as they closely relate but it's not easy to get motivated for something that one has no real use for so at most it will cold winter evening stuff)

To us, tagged PDF is important. Specifically, for PDF/A with compliance level a, tagging is mandatory. ConTeXt is the only (!) TeX-based PDF creation suite that can produce correct and reliable tagging. Our company is producing (and weekly updating) 67 manuals and technical documents from more than 900 ConTeXt source files for our software products. The output PDFs are converted to PDF/A-2a, which is only possible due to ConTeXt's tagging.

From what we hear of our customers, PDF/A level a and PDF/UA are becoming increasingly important, be it because of archiving issues or because of legislation requirements. So please, maintain this invaluable feature!

Cheers, and thank you for all the effort. Christoph