context minimals "path and directory structure" question

context minimals "path and directory structure" question

[Jan-Erik Hägglöf]

Hello!

I'm using  context-minimal version: 2008.10.01 19:13 and have a
generally question.

I'm writing several documents with similar structure and design and have
collected all common settings in "settings.tex" like following:

\startenvironment settings
...
...
...
\stopenvironment

and just do the usual invoking by

in 

anything.tex

\environment settings

\starttext
...
...
...
\stoptext

I've installed the "minimals" structure in /home/$USER/context/... on my
ubuntu 8.04 machine.

Now to the question:

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

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

Is there a more efficient way doing similar tasks, like writing a
module? 

All best!

Janneman
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Re: context minimals "path and directory structure" question

[luigi scarso]

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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Jan-Erik Hägglöf <
janerik.hagglof@bredband.net> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm using  context-minimal version: 2008.10.01 19:13

ok, I suppose that you are using first-setup.sh
and
. setuptext

> and have a
> generally question.
>
> I'm writing several documents with similar structure and design and have
> collected all common settings in "settings.tex" like following:
>
> \startenvironment settings
> ...
> ...
> ...
> \stopenvironment
>
> and just do the usual invoking by
>
> in
>
> anything.tex
>
> \environment settings
>
> \starttext
> ...
> ...
> ...
> \stoptext
>
> I've installed the "minimals" structure in /home/$USER/context/... on my
> ubuntu 8.04 machine.
>
> Now to the question:
>
> Where in this "structure" do I place "settings.tex" so it can be found
> by context from anywhere in my document-structure?
>
 tex/texmf-local/tex/context/user
can be a good place


> I suppose I should do something like "context --make" after placing the
> file. If I do the usual upgrade what happens then?
>
first-setup.sh  should not delete your files.

context --generate
context --make
are "safe "
(well, one can always write a malicius tex file that overwrite
tex/texmf-local/tex/context/user/settings.tex ...)

-- 
luigi

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Re: context minimals "path and directory structure" question

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Jan-Erik Hägglöf wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm using  context-minimal version: 2008.10.01 19:13 and have a
> generally question.
>
> I'm writing several documents with similar structure and design and have
> collected all common settings in "settings.tex" like following:
>
> \startenvironment settings
> ...
> ...
> ...
> \stopenvironment
>
> and just do the usual invoking by
>
> in
>
> anything.tex
>
> \environment settings
>
> \starttext
> ...
> ...
> ...
> \stoptext
>
> I've installed the "minimals" structure in /home/$USER/context/... on my
> ubuntu 8.04 machine.
>
> Now to the question:
>
> Where in this "structure" do I place "settings.tex" so it can be found
> by context from anywhere in my document-structure?

Like Luigi said, texmf-local/tex/context/whatever might be the best
place in the tree.

> I suppose I should do something like "context --make" after placing the
> file.

mktexlsr for kpathsea and luatools --generate for mkiv.
Though some folders are searched even without putting them to database.

> If I do the usual upgrade what happens then?

The script doesn't touch texmf-local.

> Is there a more efficient way doing similar tasks, like writing a
> module?

You can also have "settings.tex" on top of all the folders that use
it. Plain file and module do not make much difference in such cases.

(For safety reasons, I prefer to have a copy of such files locally (in
folder where I process files). I never know when I switch computer and
forget to copy some files from some "global" folders.)

Mojca
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Re: context minimals "path and directory structure" question

[Aditya Mahajan]

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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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