  Estimates for electroproduction of pseudoscalar mesons at small values of
skewness are presented. Cross sections and asymmetries for these processes are
calculated within the handbag approach which is based on factorization in hard
parton subprocesses and soft generalized parton distributions (GPDs). The
latter are constructed from double distributions. Transversity GPDs are taken
into account; they are accompanied by twist-3 meson wave functions. For most
pseudoscalar-meson channels a combination of H-tilde_T$ and E-bar_T$ plays a
particularly prominent role. This combination of GPDs which we constrain by
moments obtained from lattice QCD, leads with the exception of the pi+ and eta'
channels, to large transverse cross sections.
