Re: ConTeXt on Excursion: translations in the Garden

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Mon, 14 May 2007 22:46:20 -0400 (EDT)
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 May 2007, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> 
> >> I wasn't able to test my answer because I use myself a different file structure
> >> for the beginners manual and never encountered this problem.
> >
> >  I guess the problem is with \doiffileelse in ma-cb-setups.tex:
> >
> > # \doiffileelse{t-setup.tex}
> > #   {\usemodule[setup]}      % third party t-setup.tex
> > #   {\usemodule[set-11]}
> >
> >  As it is (without tweaking TEXINPUTS or installing t-setup.tex
> > manually), t-setup.tex isn't found in the parent directory, so
> > x-set-11.tex is loaded in its place.
> 
> Why is it done this way? Isn't t-setup always supposed to be 
> distributed with the sources. Why not simply
> 
> \environment t-setup
> 
> If a file is being used for only one project, it should be an 
> environment file. If it will be used in multiple projects, it should 
> be a module.
> 
> Wolfgang, do you think that t-setup.tex can be added as x-set-13.tex, 
> or maybe even overwrite x-set-11.tex? (I have not read it carefully to 
> understand what are the enhancements that it provides).
> 

Hi Aditya,

the module is a replacement for x-set-11 and and tries to solve a few
problem x-set-11 has, like generating a index with all commands used in
the current file.

It provides also a few like generating a index entry without showing
the command in the running text or generating own texts for
envronments, like a setup command for "\startFOO ... \stopFOO" (the
FOO is not a placeholder, you can realy show FOO in the output from
\shortsetup).

> >  How is \doiffileelse supposed to search for files exactly?
> 
> Try to open the file for reading. If the file can be read, then read 
> the file, else do the else part. The check for file etc is done using 
> TeX's \immediate\openin\scratchread \filename, so there is no 
> searching for parent directories. The \project and \environment macros 
> have to make some effort to read files in parent directories.
> 
> Aditya

This should be wikified.

Wolfgang
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