Re: Moving to ConTeXt

[Matthias Weber <matweber@indiana.edu>]

Relative paths work fine for me as long as they point to subdirectories.

However, I could never get something like  ../figures to work on Mac Os  
X,
but that might be my ignorance.

Matthias

but I might be wrong
On Mar 11, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:

> On 11 Mar 2005, at 18:02, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
>> Am 10.03.2005 um 10:59 schrieb Gerben Wierda:
>>> What I do not understand is how these components end up in a  
>>> directory
>>> hierarchy.
>>>
>>> What would be very nice is some sort of downloadable archive with  
>>> some
>>> sample basic project structures.
>>>
>>> Reading the stuff above I still have no idea how to build a directory
>>> hierarchy for my project such that it can do all that the project
>>> management part of ConTeXt promises.
>>
>> Do you *need* different directories? Perhaps it's sufficient to name  
>> your components so that you can easily see what belongs where.
>>
>> AFAIK ConTeXt looks always into the parent directories, but not in  
>> parallel/child directories if not explicitly specified. (E.g. you can  
>> define a figures path.)
>>
>> Did you have a look at the wiki:  
>> http://contextgarden.net/Project_structure
>
> Certainly I did, and I used the scripts that were linked there. But  
> none of the explanations give examples of directory hierarchy. Take  
> for instance images. I've set up a directory for images. But the only  
> way I can get ConTeXt to find the images is to have an absolute path  
> in the directory
>
> \setupexternalfigures[directory=/Volumes/Data/Users/gerben/Documents/ 
> Prive/book-context/images,
>         maxwidth=\textwidth]
>
> I have my chapters (components) in book-context and my product file in  
> book-context/products
>
> But I would like some directory structure *without* this absolute  
> path, if only because it does not work when mirrored to my laptop  
> where the home directory is quite somewhere else.
>
> G
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