From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24717 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: developing large numbers of MP files for inclusion in source Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:17:25 +0100 Message-ID: <43AD1225.9030509@elvenkind.com> References: <2F1ECAB6-F02B-46C8-BC39-76F1B4F5AE2F@cox.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135415835 21135 80.91.229.2 (24 Dec 2005 09:17:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:17:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Dec 24 10:17:13 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 1Eq5Wb-00041b-DW for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:17:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04DDF127F6; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:17:13 +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 26911-07; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:17:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B707127CE; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:17:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90FE127CE for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:17:04 +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 27113-03-2 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:17:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from post-25.mail.nl.demon.net (post-25.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.195]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05EB127C3 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:17:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:56649 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-25.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Eq5WR-000MJw-9S for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:17:03 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <2F1ECAB6-F02B-46C8-BC39-76F1B4F5AE2F@cox.net> 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:24717 Archived-At: David Arnold wrote: > > I am open to any suggestions on how to most efficiently develop and > include figures (in Metapost, of course) in our main document. Well, if you do not depend on metafun -- context interaction, then I would just create a metapost input file per chapter, and compile it with mpost off-line (it they are complicated, even pre-run mptopdf to save time during the inclusion phase). Then include the image in the document just like I would a 'normal' external figure or even table). I have a separate per-chapter directory for that to avoid clutter. It is not most high-tech solution, but I find it quite workable. So, my tree structure usually looks like this: ./book.tex ./style.tex ./chapter1.tex % those are components ./chapter2.tex ... ./chapter1/figure.mp ./chapter1/figure.1 ./chapter1/figure.2 ./chapter1/whatever.png ./chapter1/table-1.tex Cheers, Taco