Thank you for your advice Hraban.

From: Henning Hraban Ramm
Sent: Monday, 15 June 2020 20:23
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] using modeset

> Am 12.06.2020 um 11:26 schrieb Jan Willem Flamma <register12c@gmail.com>:

>

> Thank you Wolfgang, BPJ and Robert for your answers and feedback. Much appreciated.

> 

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

The project that pays my bills is technical documentation in several languages (in LaTeX3, setup by Marei). Each manual is constructed from many small building blocks of text. Each block is in its own file.

That makes editing one whole manual somewhat tedious, but pays off if you recycle the same blocks. E.g. each block is only translated once, even if it appears in several manuals (think of security instructions or legal stuff that is the same in all). Each block has an explicite change date to keep track of the state of the different translations.

The two main files of each product are one that contains just a few settings and one that pulls in all the needed building blocks.

In this case all blocks with the same content in different languages are kept together in one directory (files have a language code). Another approach would be same structures and file names below a main language directory.

If you have only one translation, the latter might be better. If you need to keep several translations in sync, the first approach might make more sense.

Hraban

___________________________________________________________________________________

If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net

archive  : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/

wiki     : http://contextgarden.net

___________________________________________________________________________________