Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:18:37 -0600, Martin Schröder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 2008/6/30 Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>> What does ConTeXt have that Framemaker does not?
>>>
>>> I don't know about ConTeXt, but I know that something like LaTeX's
>>> \include/\includeonly was a new feature of Frame 7 (from 2002).
>>
>> What is \include/\includeonly?
>>
>
> Suppose you are writing a book with 15 chapters, and it takes a long
> time to compile your chapters. In LaTeX, you can include each chapter
> using \include {name of file} and then add a command \includeonly{a few
> chapters} on the top of your file. Only the chapters specified by
> \includeonly are included. So, it saves a lot of time in compiling the
> file. (I think there is also a command to exclude specific chapters).
>
> It is roughly similar to compiling only a component of a big project in
> ConTeXt. However, I feel that the latex version works better since it
> maintains the numbering of chapters, etc.
>
> For example, in latex if I include chapter 3 of a big book, its chapter
> number will be 3, and all the cross references to material outside that
> chapter will be correct.
>
> In Context, if I compile the component containing chapter 3, its number
> will start from 1. I can get correct cross references by using
> \usereferences (and ignore the duplicate references warning), but the
> numbering of the compiled component is incorrect. This is one are where
> I wish context had better support.
>
> Note that latex's method is not perfect. \include starts a new page, but
> that way it can ensure that the materical of included file is somewhat
> isolated with rest of the material. Context's \component does not start
> a new page, which is often times useful.
for that purpose there has always been
\setuphead[chapter][incrementnumber=somefilename] % whole doc file
(just as there are parallel documents and such)
but i haven't used it in 10 years; maybe i pick up this feature for mkiv
Hans
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