Managing errata in documents

Managing errata in documents

[Bruce Horrocks]

Dear All,

What is the best way to manage errata for a printed document produced 
using ConTeXt?

Suppose that I wish to produce a book that will be published. Obviously, 
it is not going to be possible to re-print each time an error is found, 
so I would like to be able to collect these together and produce an 
errata sheet which can be distributed to those who have the book.

Is there a (simple) way of being able to make and tag the changes in the 
original ConTeXt source files but process to produce an errata sheet 
rather than a whole new book?

At the moment, the only thing that I can think of to do is to keep two 
documents: the original book updated as errors are found, and a separate 
errata sheet document which is also updated as each is found.

Does anyone have any experience of either approach that they are able to 
share with us?

Regards,
-- 
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire
England
bh@granby.demon.co.uk

Re: Managing errata in documents

[Berend de Boer]

Bruce Horrocks <01.0032@granby.demon.co.uk> writes:

> What is the best way to manage errata for a printed document produced
> using ConTeXt?
>
> Suppose that I wish to produce a book that will be
> published. Obviously, it is not going to be possible to re-print each
> time an error is found, so I would like to be able to collect these
> together and produce an errata sheet which can be distributed to those
> who have the book.
>
> Is there a (simple) way of being able to make and tag the changes in
> the original ConTeXt source files but process to produce an errata
> sheet rather than a whole new book?

I think this is precisely an area where ConTeXt excels. What you could
do is to use \defineblock, look it up in the manual. It should be used
somewhat like this:

\defineblock[ver10] % original version
\defineblock[ver11] % new version

\hideblock[ver10]

\starttext

\chapter{My chapter}

This is an unmodified paragraph.

\beginver10
This was a wrong sentence.
\endver10

\beginver11
But corrected in version 1.1.
\endver11

\chapter{Errata version 1.1}

\useblocks[ver11]

\stoptext

--
Groetjes,

Berend. (-: