[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt-StarterKit: A Ready-to-Use Template for ConTeXt LMTX

[Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On 9/22/2025 7:56 AM, seyal.zavira@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm really glad to hear that the starter kit looks useful to you.
> 
> That's exactly one of the goals I had in mind—to make it easier to spin up smaller projects without the usual setup overhead.
> 
> Any feedback you might have would be incredibly valuable.

I took a quick look (not much time now) but I'm sure others will reflect 
on details but one thing I noticed is that you use a lot of \input while 
at the same time assuming some project structure. Best look into 
\environment, \component and alike because then one can process units, 
prevent duplicate loading (which at some point will clash with 
overloadprotection), provide cross unit referencing, get level-up file 
lookups for free, etc.

Also, maybe use 'document' instead of 'project' as main variable 
namespace because that one has some other benefits.

Some of the larger manuals are structured this way so they might act as 
example.

When it comes to file lookups: texmf-project and texmf-fonts are also a 
place to put files under (tex/user/<project>) because these are part of 
general the file database lookup; beware of duplicate copied of fonts 
with the same name because of what ends up in the font cache (different 
versions can clash then).

Hans



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