From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4764 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[2]: Environments, Projects, Products, Components Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 20:01:58 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <25874768.20010530200158@bigfoot.com> References: <15816128813.20010530134008@bigfoot.com> <3B150E38.6060605@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: Giuseppe Bilotta NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395402 28513 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:50:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Taco Hoekwater Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4764 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4764 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