Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and the blind

2004-04-15 Thread Alan Bowen
Bill, Erik, and Matthew Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will explore pdftotext and the Acrobat Save As options. One of the problems for alland perhaps it is insuperableis the ability of such reading software to present phrases in foreign languages and mathematical expressions. I

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and the blind

2004-04-15 Thread Bill McClain
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:00:12 -0400 Alan Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will explore pdftotext and the Acrobat _Save As_ options. Another issue with these methods is that the header and footer information on each page will be included, which could be

[NTG-context] Generalized \installcompoundcharacter

2004-04-15 Thread Matija Pretnar
With the advent of UTF-8, there comes a great possibility to improve readability of the TeX code. For example: instead of \int_a^b, you could write S_a^b, where S is the character for integral. Or greek letters and any other math symbol imaginable. I tried using \installcompoundcharacter S

Re: [NTG-context] Generalized \installcompoundcharacter

2004-04-15 Thread Matija Pretnar
Maybe I gave a bad example. Try this one. http://www.pretnar.info/compare.pdf On 15. apr 2004, at 16:38, Gary Pajer wrote: With the advent of UTF-8, there comes a great possibility to improve readability of the TeX code. For example: instead of \int_a^b, you could write S_a^b, where S is the

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and the blind

2004-04-15 Thread Jan Hlavacek
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:50:04PM -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] Generalized \installcompoundcharacter

2004-04-15 Thread Gary Pajer
Aha. Now I get it. I withdraw my comment, and wait for more expert opinion. -Gary - Original Message - From: Matija Pretnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe I gave a bad example. Try this one. http://www.pretnar.info/compare.pdf On 15. apr 2004, at 16:38, Gary Pajer wrote: With the

[NTG-context] Re: request for help with suffix arrays

2004-04-15 Thread Jonathan Nicholl
Message: 11 From: vinuth madinur [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:40:27 +0800 Subject: [NTG-context] Re: help required w.r.t vardef Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Hans! That wolud help me a lot.Also thanks for the reference u mentioned.I'll try

Re: [NTG-context] vim syntax file for ConTeXt

2004-04-15 Thread Gour
John Culleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just use the generic TeX syntax file. It works well enough to satisfy me. I have programmed the F5 key to wite out the current file and texexec a file called book.tex. F3 fires up Xpdf for book.pdf. As you may know Xpdf can update on the fly

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and the blind

2004-04-15 Thread Hans Hagen
At 17:32 15/04/2004, you wrote: There is a utility called untex, that strips LaTeX formating from a tex file. I didn't test it with ConTeXt, but it may work too. If you can produce a dvi file, there is couple of programs: dvi2tty and catdvi that can extract text from a dvi file, Finally,

[NTG-context] Possible bug in texexec

2004-04-15 Thread Morten Hgholm
Dan Luecking has reported the following problem on c.t.t.: When mptopdf is used on a .mp file it preprocesses the file and the result (on my system it seems always to be named mptrace.tmp) is run through mpost. This mptrace.tmp has new-lines after every semicolon (;). This causes an error when