From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18787 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Gerben Wierda" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Moving to ConTeXt Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <61056.213.84.141.31.1110448760.squirrel@213.84.141.31> References: <57223.159.46.248.227.1109085701.squirrel@159.46.248.227> <421C975E.2080902@wxs.nl> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110448811 7597 80.91.229.2 (10 Mar 2005 10:00:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:00:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 10 11:00:08 2005 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 1D9KRi-00040x-7D for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB9B127DD; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29776-03; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3C812780; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DDF12780 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29591-05 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89A281277C for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ii2.demon.nl ([82.161.98.36]:21240 helo=mail.rna.nl) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9KRt-0005wm-AK for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:59:21 +0000 Original-Received: from mail.rna.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.rna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3AE62EF0 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from 213.84.141.31 (SquirrelMail authenticated user gerben); by mail.rna.nl with HTTP; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:20 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <421C975E.2080902@wxs.nl> Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by 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: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18787 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18787 > Gerben Wierda wrote: >> I am (again) considering moving to ConTeXt. A few years ago I >> investigated >> the move because I have apositive impression of the quality of the >> ConTeXt >> project and because I find the standard LaTeX layouts ugly. At that ti= me >> I >> decided against it because the first thing I tried (a list within a >> list) >> did not work and because I was under the impression that I would have = to >> do alot of layout myself (and I have TeX for that, right?). I am >> thinking >> of using LaTeX and the memoir class. Anyway, I am still tempted. >> >> So I am investigating again. I would like to know if (and how) I can d= o >> the following in ConTeXt. I did read the manual before writing this: >> - Project structure for a book, chapters to be in separate files. >> Chapters >> to be processed individually when required, or better: chapter + >> index/toc/appendices, etc. How do you do that? I do not understand the >> manual here entirely and my test from a few years ago failed. > > you can use something > > =3D=3D=3D thisbook.tex > > \startproject book > > \environment mystyle.tex > .... > > \stopproject > > =3D=3D=3D book.tex > > \startproduct book > > \project thisbook > > \component whatever > \component onemore > > \stopproduct > > =3D=3D=3D whatever.tex > > \startcomponent whatever > > \project thisbook > > .... > > \stopcomponent > > you can then run product and component files independently What I do not understand is how these components end up in a directory hierarchy. What would be very nice is some sort of downloadable archive with some sample basic project structures. Reading the stuff above I still have no idea how to build a directory hierarchy for my project such that it can do all that the project management part of ConTeXt promises. G