Re: [NTG-context] XML roundtripping

On 5/15/2019 4:35 PM, Denis Maier wrote:

Our workflow is not settled yet; we're still discussing options. All depends upon what is possible ...

That being said, for the purpose of displaying the articles online we'll need every article in a separate XML file. The question is if and how we will produce a PDF version containing a whole volume (we'll probably need one PDF for the whole volume and also PDFs for each article).

One option would be: - merge the articles into a single XML, - typeset from there - split the PDF (Hence my question here, https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2019/095011.html).

you can create a master xml file with includes and process the lots in one go ... this is quite convenient when you assemble for instance books from chapters that are split into sections ... you can make a xml file per chapter that includes the sections and then a book file that loads them all ... files can have a processing instruction telling what styel to load and you can run individual files or assemblies ... all the stuff needed to do that is there (and probably also documented someplace) anyway, you can always save '\lastpage' during a run ... or you can have some shared lua file with chapters/pagenumbers that gets updated by the current run all this is workflow dependent but all can be done without too much hassle (fwiw: we have some cases where for one projects hundreds of xml files get merged runtime and then processed ... the overhead is neglectable to the run)

Another option could be: - Typeset each article individually. - Get the last page number => in the next article, set the first page number to this + 1 (So, we do not necessarily need to write the page numbers back to the XML, but we'll somehow need to pass the page number to the next article in the chain.)

Am Mi., 15. Mai 2019 um 14:46 Uhr schrieb Hans Hagen mailto:j.hagen@xs4all.nl>:

On 5/15/2019 12:57 PM, Denis Maier wrote: > Hmm, getting the page number back from the tuc file sound feasible. I'll > have to look into this. > > But how would I write the information back to the XML? Is this explained > somewhere? all depends on the workflow ... why does it need to be written back?

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