Re: Continuous chapter numbering

["Peter Münster" <pmlists@free.fr>]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Randall Skelton wrote:

> I have a technical manual setup in ConTeXt whereby the manual itself is a
> ConTeXt 'project' and each chapter is a different component. Within this, I
> need to group some chapters together so these grouped chapters are products..
> Thus, I have:
> 
> project: MyManual
> component: Chapter 1
> component: Chapter 2
> component: Chapter 3
> product: Example 1
> component: Chapter 4
> component: Chapter 5
> product: Example 2
> component: Chapter 6
> component: Chapter 7
> product: Example 3
> component: Chapter 8
> component: Chapter 9

Hello Randall,

it's considered, that the project-file contains only setup-commands and a
list of products, but no commands, that generate directly output.

When you compile a product, the referenced project-file gets included in
some manner, so every product of the project will inherit the same setups.
Compiling the project-file is seldom useful. It will generate all products
in one file.

Consider just, that one product is one document, and a component is a kind
of "sub-document" for example a chapter. And the project-file is just a
list of documents, that should inherit some common setups.

I suggest the following structure:

project: MyManual
		 product: the manual
				  component: Chapter 1
				  component: Chapter 2
				  component: Chapter 3
				  component: Chapter 4
				  component: Chapter 5
				  component: Chapter 6
				  component: Chapter 7
				  component: Chapter 8
				  component: Chapter 9
		 product: Example 1
				  component: title page for example 1
				  component: Chapter 4
				  component: Chapter 5
		 product: Example 2
				  component: title page for example 2
				  component: Chapter 6
				  component: Chapter 7
		 product: Example 3
				  component: title page for example 3
				  component: Chapter 8
				  component: Chapter 9

I hope, this helps.
Cheers, Peter

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