From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24715 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Arnold Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: developing large numbers of MP files for inclusion in source Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:18:21 -0800 Message-ID: <2F1ECAB6-F02B-46C8-BC39-76F1B4F5AE2F@cox.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135383593 21386 80.91.229.2 (24 Dec 2005 00:19:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Dec 24 01:19:52 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Epx8W-000106-Rb for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:19:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DEC127CB; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:19:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19475-03; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:19:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E103A127DA; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:19:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A1A127DA for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:19:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19468-08 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:19:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from fed1rmmtao07.cox.net (fed1rmmtao07.cox.net [68.230.241.32]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F270127CB for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:19:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.0.1.2] (really [70.191.56.23]) by fed1rmmtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051224001851.MTHS3131.fed1rmmtao07.cox.net@[10.0.1.2]> for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:18:51 -0500 Original-To: Context Mailing List List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24715 Archived-At: Hans, Taco, et al, Our intermediate algebra text will require a large number of figures. I have two thoughts. 1. It's really inefficient to compile the entire context source file just to see what will happen to one figure. So, it seems that we should probably have a library of graphs for later inclusion in the main document. One would want to be able to compile all at once or individually if one were just working on one file. 2. The code for many individual figures is quite long and tends to obscure the flow of thought when included in the source. Again, if they were coming from an external document, that would be better. I am not looking to include the files one at a time after development. I know how to do that. Rather, I am looking for a way to gather all the source for figures in a file, compile all of the file, or just one figure from the file, then somehow call that source code into the main .tex doc during compile time. I am open to any suggestions on how to most efficiently develop and include figures (in Metapost, of course) in our main document. Thanks.