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