From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37146 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesse Alama Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: project structure and dissertations Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:11:19 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193911932 28232 80.91.229.12 (1 Nov 2007 10:12:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:12:12 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 01 11:12:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InX25-00008w-Cq for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:12:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D30B1FB7F; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:12:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25770-04-10; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:11:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CAA1FB39; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:11:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B651FB33 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:11:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25770-04-8 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:11:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB0A1FAFB for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:11:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1InX1F-0006ZM-44 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:11:21 +0000 Original-Received: from calaveras.stanford.edu ([128.12.173.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:11:21 +0000 Original-Received: from alama by calaveras.stanford.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:11:21 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 74 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: calaveras.stanford.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iEfF0ruTfLQW/daELP8lbXc4Apg= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:37146 Archived-At: I'm unsure about an aspect of The ConTeXt Way and its application to my current situation: typesetting a dissertation, namely: how can I take advantage of project sttructure? It seems natural to regard the dissertation as a project and the chapters as products (which sounds strange to my mind, in this case). But then I have no idea what would correspond to components; it seems like excessive, unnecessary structuring to regard sections of chapters as components. And if sections aren't components, I don't know what they would be. Earlier messages on this mailing list suggest that projects aren't supposed to be compiled; only components and products are supposed to be compiled. This suggests that the whole dissertation not be a project; clearly I would want to compile the whole dissertation. Another approach would be to skip projects and stick with just products and components. In this case, the whole dissertation would be a product (which sounds right to me), and chapters would be components. But then, if I follow that route, how would the logical structure interact with the "typographical structure" (what is called "meta-structure" in the ConTeXt manual)? I want to say something like \startfrontmatter \chapter{Preface} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{Introduction} \stopbodymatter \startappendices \chapter{Complex Proof that was Skipped} \stopappendices \startbackmatter \chapter{Colofon} \stopbackmatter in dissertation.tex, to indicate the typographical/meta structure. But then where would the \component commands go? Would it look something like this: \startproductproduct dissertation \startfrontmatter \chapter{Preface} \component{Preface} \stopbodymatter ... or would I somehow be able to refer to the whole text of the preface and do something like \startproduct dissertation \component preface \chapter{Preface} \getbuffer{buf:preface} \startfrontmatter ... with the whole text of the preface in a buffer? I would appreciate any advice! Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama@stanford.edu) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________