> Gerben Wierda wrote: >> I am (again) considering moving to ConTeXt. A few years ago I >> investigated >> the move because I have apositive impression of the quality of the >> ConTeXt >> project and because I find the standard LaTeX layouts ugly. At that time >> I >> decided against it because the first thing I tried (a list within a >> list) >> did not work and because I was under the impression that I would have to >> do alot of layout myself (and I have TeX for that, right?). I am >> thinking >> of using LaTeX and the memoir class. Anyway, I am still tempted. >> >> So I am investigating again. I would like to know if (and how) I can do >> the following in ConTeXt. I did read the manual before writing this: >> - Project structure for a book, chapters to be in separate files. >> Chapters >> to be processed individually when required, or better: chapter + >> index/toc/appendices, etc. How do you do that? I do not understand the >> manual here entirely and my test from a few years ago failed. > > you can use something > > === thisbook.tex > > \startproject book > > \environment mystyle.tex > .... > > \stopproject > > === book.tex > > \startproduct book > > \project thisbook > > \component whatever > \component onemore > > \stopproduct > > === whatever.tex > > \startcomponent whatever > > \project thisbook > > .... > > \stopcomponent > > you can then run product and component files independently
What I do not understand is how these components end up in a directory hierarchy. What would be very nice is some sort of downloadable archive with some sample basic project structures. Reading the stuff above I still have no idea how to build a directory hierarchy for my project such that it can do all that the project management part of ConTeXt promises. G _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
