Re: ConTeXt, Framemaker, and InDesign

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> 
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:18:37 -0600, Martin Schröder <martin@oneiros.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 2008/6/30 Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@colostate.edu>:
>>>> What does ConTeXt have that Framemaker does not?
>>>
>>> I don't know about ConTeXt, but I know that something like LaTeX's
>>> \include/\includeonly was a new feature of Frame 7 (from 2002).
>>
>> What is \include/\includeonly?
>>
> 
> Suppose you are writing a book with 15 chapters, and it takes a long 
> time to compile your chapters. In LaTeX, you can include each chapter 
> using \include {name of file} and then add a command \includeonly{a few 
> chapters} on the top of your file. Only the chapters specified by 
> \includeonly are included. So, it saves a lot of time in compiling the 
> file. (I think there is also a command to exclude specific chapters).
> 
> It is roughly similar to compiling only a component of a big project in 
> ConTeXt. However, I feel that the latex version works better since it 
> maintains the numbering of chapters, etc.
> 
> For example, in latex if I include chapter 3 of a big book, its chapter 
> number will be 3, and all the cross references to material outside that 
> chapter will be correct.
> 
> In Context, if I compile the component containing chapter 3, its number 
> will start from 1. I can get correct cross references by using 
> \usereferences (and ignore the duplicate references warning), but the 
> numbering of the compiled component is incorrect. This is one are where 
> I wish context had better support.
> 
> Note that latex's method is not perfect. \include starts a new page, but 
> that way it can ensure that the materical of included file is somewhat 
> isolated with rest of the material. Context's \component does not start 
> a new page, which is often times useful.

for that purpose there has always been

\setuphead[chapter][incrementnumber=somefilename] % whole doc file

(just as there are parallel documents and such)

but i haven't used it in 10 years; maybe i pick up this feature for mkiv

Hans


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