Thank you Wolfgang, BPJ and Robert for your answers and feedback. Much app= reciated.

I will explorer the solutions that have been offe= red to extend my knowledge on using ConTeXt but at the same time I value th= e advice of not going down that route for large document.=

In= any case, I have learned something!

Kind regards,

Jan W= illem Flamma

From: r.ermers@hccnet.nl
Sent: Friday, 12 June 2020 07:56
<= b>To: mailing list for ConTeXt us= ers
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] using modeset

I tried this too, a number of times. For leng= thy texts it makes little sense. One important thing is that, as BPJ says, = you loose the flow during writing. When the document is finished, it is dif= ficult to get an overview.

If you consider it using= for lengthy documents, I would consider to set up an xml file. You can the= n have the overview via scripts.

Yet for short text= s it can be a solution. I have case material for my trainings in both Engli= sh and Dutch in the same file. Instead of modes, I use blocks. Like this:

\defineblock[ENblok]

<= p class=3DMsoNormal>\defineblock[NLblok]

%\def\NL#1{#1}

\def\NL#1{{}}

%\def\EN#1{}<= o:p>

\def\EN#1{#1}

<= /div>

You have to comment and uncomment, depending on the language= , but I think you can put them in the NLblok or ENbloks instead.=

\definecomplexenumeration[Casus]

=E2=80=A6 definition

\= def\refno#1{{\em{(no. \small #1})}}

My files look l= ike this:

\starttext

\start= Casus[casus-349][\NL{Een moeilijke zaak}\EN{A complicated case}] \refno{cas= us-349}\crlf

The casus-349 element is used as a lab= el. After the text I have a list of questions for this case in a separate b= lock for questions, introduced by \in[casus-349]).

= You can probably also use something like

\section[\NL{Een moeilijke zaak}\EN{A complicated case}]{= xxxx}

\begin[NLblok]

\startlinenumbering

text ...

\stoplinenumbering

\end[NLblok]

\begin[E= nblok]

\startlinenumbering

text...

\stoplinenumbering

\end[Enbl= ok]

\stoptext

<= /div>

I hope this helps finding a solution.

Robe= rt

Op 11 jun. 2020, om 20:53 heeft BPJ <bpj@melroch.se> het volgende geschreven:<= o:p>

Den tors 11 juni 2020 10:45Jan Willem Flamma <register12c@gmail.com> skrev:<= o:p>

<= span lang=3Den-NL>Dear list members,

I write trai= ning manuals and use the Modes mechanism a lot to create documents at vario= us competency levels using a single set of source files. So far the manuals= have been written in English but now a separate Dutch translation has to b= e created.
=
It is important that the two manuals a= re setup similarly so the section/subsection numbers and question numbers a= re the same in the English manual and the Dutch manual. Note: I do not inte= nd to create a manual that has the English and Dutch text at opposite sides= (as can be done using streams)

I=E2=80=99m keen = to continue using a single set of source files and thought it would be best= to simply type the translated sections and subsections just below the orig= inal English sections and subsections using modeset. This gives me the opti= on of creating an English case and a Dutch case. Within this two cases I wo= uld still apply all sorts of other modes using \startmode and \doifmode.

I have done that with= LaTeX and IMHO that way lies madness. It may work for shorter text but for= text(s) of any length it gets messy. You lose the "flow" i= n both texts, and it shows when you read the typeset text, and the source b= ecomes hard to navigate. You are probably better off using an editor which = allows you to have the two versions open side by side in their own viewport= s (I use what Vim calls "windows"). If each section heading= is on its own line you might try something like a Perl script to loop over= the lines in the English version and print only the section headings to a = new file, where you translate them and build up the Dutch version around th= em. It's even better if the editor has the capacity to show an outline pane= for each version =E2=80=94 if there is an outline mode which understands C= onTeXt.

I'm sorry to discourage you but chances are= that you end up with an intractable mess which you will have to spend much= time disentangling later.

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