>> When I write a project, product, component or environment file, why >> would I want the references I made to be dependent on the directory >> where the script was called? Shouldn't things be like the >> #include "relative_path.h" >> used in the C language, for example? That is, shouldn't those paths be >> relative to the script that refers to them? [...] > > The way tex (and its path) are set up is that files are looked up on the > current path (.) or relative to it, or in the (tds compliant) tex tree. > Auxiliary files are created in the current directory.
I thought the reason was TeX itself. I just had some hope that ConTeXt would "fix" this behavior some how. Since ConTeXt allows one to have products and contents relatively independent from the project itself, I thought that it would make sense to have the references to files independent from the project structure as well. Maybe I can just live with TEXINPUTS and BIBINPUTS... :-) I guess the magic could be at some extent done with "\usepath". Leaving the probably already extensively discussed "\usepath" precedence order for another discussion... > One can hardcode a path in the tex source if needed. Another option is to > move to the source path (something texmfstart --path ... texexec ... or > mtxrun --path ... --script context ...) but what's best depends on the kind > of project. I definitely prefer not to hard code paths in the source. Actually, I would like the "components" to not have to worry at all about where they live... I will study texmfstart. :-) > Do you really need to use context mkii? As it's a new project, using context > mkiv might be a better idea. No, I don't. I want to use always the preferred solution. I want to follow your guidelines and be enlightened... :-) How did you know I was using one and not the other? I didn't know it myself!!! Thank you very much for your help and for this great piece of software, Hans. André Caldas. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
