Re: [NTG-context] developing large numbers of MP files for inclusion in source

2005-12-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: I am open to any suggestions on how to most efficiently develop and include figures (in Metapost, of course) in our main document. Well, if you do not depend on metafun -- context interaction, then I would just create a metapost input file per chapter, and compile it

Re: [NTG-context] developing large numbers of MP files for inclusion in source

2005-12-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2005-12-24 um 01:18 schrieb David Arnold: 1. It's really inefficient to compile the entire context source file just to see what will happen to one figure. So, it seems that we should probably have a library of graphs for later inclusion in the main document. One would want to be able

Re: [NTG-context] developing large numbers of MP files for inclusion in source

2005-12-24 Thread David Arnold
Mojca, You pretty much describe the way I've always worked in the past. I am currently working on a technique where all my graphics for section1 of chapter 3 are inside a file named sectionfigs.tex. I am using MPpage and friends to make these. The file currently contains about 14 graphics

Re: [NTG-context] developing large numbers of MP files for inclusion in source

2005-12-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: Do you have one metapost file with many figures in it? Is it possible to just compile for the figurein that file that you want? Usually I have all in one file. You can comment out figures you do not need, using: if false: beginfig(1) ... endfig; .. fi So I

[NTG-context] developing large numbers of MP files for inclusion in source

2005-12-23 Thread David Arnold
Hans, Taco, et al, Our intermediate algebra text will require a large number of figures. I have two thoughts. 1. It's really inefficient to compile the entire context source file just to see what will happen to one figure. So, it seems that we should probably have a library of graphs for