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
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Jesse Alama ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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