From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15090 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Notes and questions on 432 page book. Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 19:49:33 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040506194540.02cc8fd0@server-1> References: <200405050640.02510.john@wexfordpress.com> <200405052018.20803.john@wexfordpress.com> <4099C937.8070307@zam.att.ne.jp> <200405061134.01835.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083865958 17236 80.91.224.253 (6 May 2004 17:52:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu May 06 19:52:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLn2p-0005Ru-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 19:52:27 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F166410B52; Thu, 6 May 2004 19:48:15 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E0510ABE for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 19:46:41 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i46Hofvl025077 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 19:50:41 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id ACBEE17B4B; Thu, 6 May 2004 19:50:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CD911EC7 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 17:50:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <200405061134.01835.john@wexfordpress.com> Original-References: <200405050640.02510.john@wexfordpress.com> <200405052018.20803.john@wexfordpress.com> <4099C937.8070307@zam.att.ne.jp> <200405061134.01835.john@wexfordpress.com> X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.70, clamav-milter version 0.70j Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15090 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15090 At 23:34 06/05/2004, you wrote: >I have a single document, a book, and I find it convenient >to subdivide it into files. For example I carry the same >macro set from job to job, modifying it with each >successive use. It saves a lot of typing. And as recently >illustrated if an error crops up I can turn off segments of >the document for debugging purposes. \component and \environment also work outside the structure there's also \readfile{filename}{}{} all these commands, except \input, obey path and subpath rules - search test.tex on ./test.tex ../test.tex ../../test.tex - search on (predefined) //test.tex >Finally, I think Hans assumed too much of his readers (or at >least this reader) when he wrote the passage on project >etc. control. I read it but still ask myself "what is the >cost vs. benefit" and "how does it work in the day to day >world"? But that would take a book by itself, and there are >more important topics to be addressed in Context >documentation. it depends, for big manuals i always use'm an advantage is that one can for instance process components without the need to include all environments explicitly since they are taken from th eproduct / project files Hans