Re: context minimals "path and directory structure" question

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Jan-Erik Hägglöf wrote:

> Where in this "structure" do I place "settings.tex" so it can be found
> by context from anywhere in my document-structure?

For files which are specific to one or two projects, I usually place them 
in the directory:

main-dir/
  |
  +---- settings.tex
  |
  +---- project-1/
  |        |
  |        +--- component-1-1.tex
  |
  +---- project-2/

and then in component-1-1.tex, put

\environment settings

There is no need to tell the relative path to context. When context cannot 
find a file in the current dir, it looks up two (or three?) levels to find 
the file.

As Mojca said, this has the added advantage of making the structure 
self-sufficient. You can just copy the main-dir on a different computer 
and everything works.

For files that are used in many different projects, I usually make it a 
module (if you are not using any advanced features, like localenvironments 
or setupmodules, modules and environments are the same)

I have created a directory texmf-local/tex/context/aditya where I put all 
my files (and sync them to a svn server so that I can use them on 
different computers).

> I suppose I should do something like "context --make" after placing the
> file. If I do the usual upgrade what happens then?

You make need to run luatools --generate (or texhash if using mkii) if 
place the files in texmf-local. To prevent any accidents with upgrades, 
create a directory in texmf-local/tex/context that is unique. You can also 
create the directory in $TEXMFHOME/tex/context (which is usually 
$HOME/tex/context in *nix systems, I do not know about win/mac). Normally 
upgrades do not touch anything in $TEXMFHOME.

Aditya

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