Re: External figures from other folders

[Alain Delmotte <esperanto@swing.be>]

Thanks for the detailed explanation, Mari.

Regards,

Alain

Le 4/02/2013 17:07, Mari Voipio a écrit :
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Alain Delmotte <esperanto@swing.be> wrote:
>>> When I worked with a master file and its translations where some
>>> figures had translated text and others didn't, I dumped the translated
>>> pics in the same directory with my translated tex file, while all the
>>> untouched graphics could be found at the root. So when I compiled e.g.
>>> the Swedish tex file, it would first look for graphics in its own
>>> directory 'swedish', and only if a graphic could not be found, it
>>> followed the paths set by \setupexternalfigures.
>>
>>
>> You were compiling the Swedish tex file from the Swedish directory or from
>> the master directory (where the master file was)?
>> In other words: the compilation of the Swedish text was called from?? the
>> master file? or the Swedish tex file itself?
>
> Background: at that point of time I couldn't figure out about project
> structures. And I drew my flow charts in CorelDraw, hadn't taught
> myself that, either. :-)
>
> NB. This is a bit simplified example of how things went, the real
> thing contains more directories and subdirectories, but those are not
> important to explain my idea.
>
>
> What I had is a directory structure like this
>
> PR-23
>   PR-23/swedish
>   PR-23/portuguese
>   PR-23/spanish
>   PR-23/german
>
> It all started with a single-language project, language subdirectories
> got added over time when translations turned out to be of essence.
> [PR-23 is the name of the product for which the document is written.]
>
> To illustrate the system with graphics, let's say that the main
> directory PR-23 contained a flowchart called flow_troubles.pdf and a
> wiring picture wrg-366.pdf.
> Wiring drawings are never translated, so every manual version uses the
> same graphic.
> On the other hand, the flow chart needs to be translated for every
> language version. I did that by copying the English original (Corel
> Draw graphic) into the language folder, then translating, saving and
> exporting as pdf in that (sub)directory. The result is that both e.g.
> the subdirectory swedish and the main directory PR-23 would contain a
> graphic called flow_troubles.pdf, but the one in the subfolder would
> be in Swedish.
>
> Then, if I needed a Swedish manual, I needed to go into subfolder
> Swedish and compile the main .tex file there. At the beginning of that
> file I had the command \setupexternalfigures[directory=../]. When the
> compilation came to wrg-366.pdf, the graphic could not be found in the
> same directory, so ConTeXt went one step up as instructed and picked
> up the wiring drawing there. Later when compilation would get as far
> to flow_troubles.pdf, ConTeXt would look in the working directory
> 'swedish', find it there and pick up that one and *stop looking for
> that graphic*. Ergo, because the Swedish one could be found first, the
> existence of the English version in the search path is not a problem.
>
>
> This way I didn't need to change the names of my graphics nor my code.
> It was also handy when translations arrived in batches; I translated
> the graphics one by one and could always compile a proper looking
> document, first with all graphics in English, then some in the target
> language, finally fully translated - and still, if a new version of
> the wiring drawing turned up, I only had to update the master
> directory and then remember to compile the translations to get the
> changes in.
>
>
>
> One more thing to remember is that I really do product manuals and
> they are always in fluctuation - there's no final version of the
> manual until the production of that particular model has ceased. Thus
> years have taught me to avoid duplicate information to utmost, because
> the more places to update because of a minor change, the more likely
> it is to forget at least one of them. Been there, done that...
> [When I switched to ConTeXt, each manual version was a separate MS
> Word document. To update a wiring drawing, I had to open each version,
> import the drawing to replace the old one, then save and close. And
> hope for the best, switching figures in Word wasn't always that
> straight forward, ConTeXt is definitely more predictable.]
>
>
> Mari
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