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)