Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> we would need some emacspeak expert here...
>
> My take would be:
> 1. Parse #+LANGUAGE (and other language related keywords that may eventually
> exist) to
> help select
> the reader's intended target audience.
> 2. Ignore the rest of the keywords as comments
> 3. Read/parse the document's body.
> - Identify links, images (using and 'alt' tag for the alternative text)
> - Find an adequate way to verbalise tables
> - Find an adequate way to verbalise org-babel output(s)
>
> Doesn't that sound quite like a new exporter?
>
> My .2 cents,/PA
> ox-latex / ox-beamer maintainer
>
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2026 at 11:09, Paul Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Paul Bryan <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >> Side question: how does emacspeak interact with org-mode? In
> >> principle, emacspeak could have access to the parse tree for tight
> >> integration which could be quite powerful. For a potential separate
> >> thread: is there work org-mode could do to improve this?
> >
> > Last time Raman himself was involved in a similar discussion, he did not
> > raise anything in particular. See
> > <https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87czew3w5l.fsf@localhost/>
>
> Yes, I see. That looks to be a discussion mostly about exporting - like this
> thread in fact
> :) I do see there was some discussion about the org-mode side, and in
> particular if
> embedding the org-mode source into the exported pdf was useful. I suppose it
> wasn't
> considered all that useful since there doesn't seem to be have been much
> follow up on
> that line of discussion.
>
> But maybe it was just that people are busy and no one really followed it up,
> and it could
> indeed be useful after all. I doubt I'll have a lot of time to invest in it,
> but the question
> of whether screen reading from a parse tree is useful or not, seems
> interesting to me.
> I'll start a new thread if I ever have anything useful to say on the subject.
>
> --
> Paul
>
> --
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> Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden
> Georg Kreisler
>
> "Sagen's Paradeiser" (ORF: Als Radiohören gefährlich war) => write BE!
> Year 2 of the New Koprocracy
>
> This was produced by a human (implied virtues and weaknesses acknowledged)
> I'd hate this being fed to any form of AS (sorry AI)...
>
hi Pedro,
what you describe here is already handled by speech servers. Emacspeak
scans the text for properties and ity sends text to the speech server
for synthesis. There's no need for a separate exporter (fortunately).
--
With best regards
Arkadiusz Świętnicki
https://swietnicki.dev
