Thanks for your assistance. Was unaware of using the setupheads command incorrectly. Good information to have. I am still not able to produce an automatic period (.) at the end of the section title using the after keyword. is this correct? On Friday, March 31, 2017, 7:01:28 PM, Rik writes:

alternative=text is working, but \startparagraph is starting a new paragraph after the heading. \start\stopparagraph is not happy with the text alternative.

I am wondering if this is just not going to work with the tagging subsystem. The subsection aligns if I remove the start/stop paragraph following the heading. But if I add a second paragraph in that subsection it breaks again. I use tagged pdfs for output because they are more accessible with my screen reader. Without tagging, all one gets is long blocks of undifferentiated text. With the correct tags, paragraphs, headings, lists, and tables get created that make more sense with auditory output. To my knowledge, ConTeXt is the only alternative for producing accessible pdfs beyond working with Acrobat pro or MS. Word. After writing a 70-page academic project in Word, I'm seeking alternatives! Perhaps one can just use in-paragraph bolding and mark that text for the table of contents as an alternative. This is required for heading level 3 content in APA style. Thanks for your assistance. I'm a newbie and appreciate the help. Todd

On 04/01/2017 05:32 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:

On 2017-04-01 00:10, Todd DeVries wrote:

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Thanks for your assistance. Was unaware of using the setupheads command incorrectly. Good information to have. I am still not able to produce an automatic period (.) at the end of the section title using the after keyword. is this correct?

Seems to be. While before= is honored, after= is not. This looks like an inconsistency that can be addressed.

Hi Todd, this will give the output you like: \setuppapersize[letter] \setuptagging[state=start] \setuphead[subsection][style=\bf, number=no, commandafter={.~}, textdistance=0cm, alternative=text] \starttext \startsubsection[title=First Subsection] \input knuth \stopsubsection \stoptext

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alternative=text is working, but \startparagraph is starting a new paragraph after the heading. \start\stopparagraph is not happy with the text alternative. I am wondering if this is just not going to work with the tagging subsystem. The subsection aligns if I remove the start/stop paragraph following the heading. But if I add a second paragraph in that subsection it breaks again.

Example, please. I have no problem adding a start/stopparagraph after your knuth. (Note that the knuth has to be terminated in a \par or a blank line. That is because of the construction of that input file.)

Add a sample, otherwise we might speculate about what you’re aiming at. Tagging PDFs the way you seem to be trying might be impossible. Here is my sample: \setuppapersize[letter] \setuptagging[state=start] \starttext \startsubsection[title=First Subsection] \startparagraph a\stopparagraph \startparagraph b\stopparagraph \startparagraph c\stopparagraph \stopsubsection \stoptext Both paragraphs and headings are block elements (I have just checked it at https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2...). Block elements cannot contain other block elements inside. Displaying block elements as inline elements, if not contradictory, might be misleading, at least.

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I use tagged pdfs for output because they are more accessible with my screen reader. Without tagging, all one gets is long blocks of undifferentiated text. With the correct tags, paragraphs, headings, lists, and tables get created that make more sense with auditory output. To my knowledge, ConTeXt is the only alternative for producing accessible pdfs beyond working with Acrobat pro or MS. Word. After writing a 70-page academic project in Word, I'm seeking alternatives!

This is an issue about text structure. We speak of block elements because they have vertical space between them (even if set to none).

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Perhaps one can just use in-paragraph bolding and mark that text for the table of contents as an alternative. This is required for heading level 3 content in APA style.

For now that might be best as long as you do not need to reference them in a table of contents (not required by APA, as I read the standard, although perhaps an added requirement from your publisher).

It seems that H3 should be a block element, not an inline element inside P (according to most XML implementations, I’d say). Why do you need in-line titles? But I may be missing something, correct me if I’m wrong. Sorry for the bad news, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

Hello everyone, Thanks to all who helped me better understand the issues surrounding my question. The document style I am following requires that the first three headings are included in the table of contents. Headings one and two are easy, as they stand on lines by themself. Heading three must be aligned with the left margin in bold and followed by a period. The rest of the paragraph or paragraphs folllow. This style makes sense visually, bold text at the margin represents a change in topic. less so when reading or editing with audio output (My computer does not have a monitor attached.) Using good sectioning allows one to fold the document for navigation and organization. Consider how Org-mode in Emacs works as an analogue. I started thinking that life would be easier if heading level 3 sections could be both structural, for navigation, and visual, inline with their first paragraph. This idea holds true both in source text and in the pdf output. Properly tagged pdf documents allow one to jump by structural elements (heading to heading, paragraph to paragraph. In a perfect world one could have it both ways: a structural element like a section, but placed inline as though it were just another layout token. The audio using tagged structure indicates a topic change, while those using their eyes just see the bold text. Hopefully this short explanation adequately describes my reason for addressing the list. Thank you, Todd

Thank you for this information. Wolfgang Schuster writes:

The inline heading in your example doesn’t work because \startparagraph forces the end of a paragraph for the preceding text.

As you want only tags for the content of your paragraph you can enclose your text in \bpar … \epar instead of \startparagraph … \stopparagraph.

That seems to work. I don't have the ability to directly examine the pdf's tags table, but the document appears to read correctly. Sections/subsections/paragraphs are identified. The subsection is inline with the following paragraph. I'm not sure what are the differences between \bpar and \startparagraph, so have used the later construction for the second paragraph in the subsection. \setuppapersize[letter] \setuptagging[state=start] \setuphead[chapter][style=\bf, number=no, align=middle] \setuphead[section][style=\bf, number=no] \setuphead[subsection][style=\bf, number=no, commandafter={.~}, textdistance=0cm, alternative=text] \starttext \startchapter[title=Chapter I] \startsection[title=Introduction] \startparagraph Beginning with the passage of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1974, students with disabilities are participating in higher education in increasing numbers (Madaus, 2011). Students with psychiatric, learning, and cognitive impairment who once considered college out of reach are taking the plunge. … \stopparagraph \startsubsection[title=Demo Subsection] \bpar Numbers for all students moving from high school through a bachelors degree in Idaho are worse than in most of the nation. Go-on Idaho (2014), an organization dedicated to furthering our state's educational outcomes , relates …\epar \startparagraph The U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2016) report that a person's level of education are linked to increased income and levels of unemployment. The more education a person has, the higher is the average wage and the lower the level of unemployment. Educational attainment matters. … \stopparagraph \stopsubsection \stopsection \stopchapter \stoptext