I'm learning how to use projects/products/components, and have got reasonably far. However, I'm confused about far upwards context searches for the configuration files (product/project/environment files). Here's a directory structure that worked fine: double/chap/1/c_ch1.tex double/prd_oom.tex double/project_books.tex double/env_books.tex It's called 'double' to signify that the components are two levels below the main project file. I cd to double/chap/1/ and then 'texexec c_ch1', and c_ch1.log tells me: systems : begin file c_ch1 at line 1 systems : begin file project_books at line 3 (../../project_books.tex systems : begin file env_books at line 3 (../../env_books.tex) systems : end file env_books at line 3 ) systems : end file project_books at line 3 So the project and environment files got read in. By the way, why isn't the product file loaded? Is it not needed when making just one component? But it could modify the environment. Leaving that question aside, here is the chap/1/c_ch1.tex file (all the .tex files and the log files are in the small attached .tgz archive): \startcomponent c_ch1 \product prd_oom \project project_books \title{chapter 1} \input tufte \par \stopcomponent The prd_oom.tex: \startproduct prd_oom \project project_books \component chap/1/c_ch1 \stopproduct And project_books.tex: % output=pdf interface=en \startproject project_books \environment env_books \product prd_oom \stopproject So the "\project project_books" in c_ch1.tex is sufficient for context to find ../../project_books.tex But I really want each product to live in its own directory. In this minimal example, the only product is 'oom', for "Order of Magnitude physics". So I tried this directory structure: triple/oom/chap/1/c_ch1.tex triple/oom/chap/1/c_ch1.log triple/oom/prd_oom.tex triple/project_books.tex triple/env_books.tex Now the project_books.tex file is three levels up from the component, and project_books.tex has "\product oom/prd_oom" instead of "\product prd_oom". Now project_books.tex isn't found when compiling c_ch1.tex.
From c_ch1.log:
systems : begin file project_books at line 3 systems : end file project_books at line 3 Is there a hardcoded limit on how far up context searches? $ texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 cont-en : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 fmt: 2006.4.6 mes: english -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal