Dear Wolfgang and Pablo
Many thanks for the replies. I've no immediate requirement for small
in-text graphics but it's the sort of thing that could well come up in a
journal article or some of the early English volumes I copy-edit and
typeset. (But my lateral-thinking brain is just beginning to formulate a
possible adaptation for footnote tagging - more anon. if I get anywhere
with this.)
It's good to know that some of these hieroglyphs are available in Unicode
(the specialist article I had to typeset had some non-standard requirements
specific to a certain set of inscriptions.)
I well remember the relief when Unicode support came in for TeX. Suddenly
the first line of the *Iliad* could appear as:
Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος,
whereas before I had had to get used to:
{\porsongreek M{\etacircumflex}nin {\alphalenisacute}eide, ue{\alphaacute},
Phlh{iotadiaeresis}{\alphaacute}dev {\Alphalenis}xil{\etacircumflex}ow}
It's surprising how quickly that sort of thing becomes legible! In those
days I latched on to WordPerfect (and even CP/M's LocoScript), which had
unique slots for Greek and Cyrillic characters, so that the rebarbative
coding I had invented could be introduced automatically with multiple
search-and-replace operations. I'm sure all this kept the brain active
(like pre-decimal coinage) - but then so does learning ConTexT.
Best wishes
John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні!
* 🇺🇦*
On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 at 16:37, Wolfgang Schuster <
wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am 09.08.2025 um 17:04 schrieb John Was:
> > Hello list
> >
> > Some years ago, when plain TeX was still pure ASCII, I had to set an
> > article on Luwian hieroglyphs, which involved a large number of very
> > small scans that appeared in running text without disturbing the
> > interlinear spacing. If I wanted to do the same in ConTexT, what would
> > be the preferred method (both in the preamble and in the text itself)?
>
> Native support for Unicode in plain TeX is possible since more than 2
> decades with the introduction of XeTeX.
>
> > Ideally I would want the label option to work for the benefit of any
> > visually impaired readers accessing the PDF. The following MWE doesn't
> > seem to work (which means no more than that I am still regrettably
> > ignorant of ConTexT's capabilities with artwork):
>
> 1. Context doesn't load images present in the TeX tree unless you tel it
> to do so.
>
> 2. The cow sample figure is provided as a pdf file while you try to load
> an jpeg image.
>
> Be aware the keys for additional texts of figures have ben changed to
> descriptiontext and alternativetext.
>
> > \starttext
> >
> > The small cow \externalfigure[cow.jpg]
> > [width=0.5em,height=2ex,label={This is a small cow.}] was attacked by
> > the quick brown fox that jumped over the lazy dog's back.\stoptext
>
> \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}]
>
> \starttext
>
> Cow: \externalfigure[cow][height=2ex].
>
> Cow: \offset[y=sd]\externalfigure[cow][height=lh].
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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