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