Re[2]: Environments, Projects, Products, Components

[Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>]

Wednesday, May 30, 2001 Taco Hoekwater wrote:

TH> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm getting the first attempts to structured ConTeXt, and I needed
>> some clarifications.
>> 
>> As I see it, it goes like this:
>> 
>> environments are more or less the equivalent of LaTeX2e classes.
>> 
>> Projects are collection of material (say, Calculus books)
>> 
>> Products are the single books (say, Calculus, Advanced Calculus)
>> 
>> Components are the single chapters of the various books.

TH> Correct.

Phew! :-)

>> Shouldn't I change chapfoo.tex so that it says \product bookb?

TH> Just delete the \product line alltogether, it is optional. :-)

Oh.

TH> Or you can do it like this:

TH> chapfoo.tex:

TH> ...
TH> \product booka
TH> \input chapfoo-contents
TH> ...

TH> chapbar.tex:
TH> ....
TH> \product bookb
TH> \input chapfoo-contents
TH> ...

I see. Hadn't thought of that ... which do you think is the better
idea? taking \product off is space-saving (only one file per
chapter, instead of two wrappers plus the file), but somehow seems
less structuring ... maybe I'd better keep \product in until I
need to use the same file somewhere else ...

What happens if product booka meets a component that says \product
bookb?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta