On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 02:57 (+0000), Joel via ntg-context wrote:
> I have a document that's quite long. It uses a recurse function, a bit like
> this:
> \starttext
> \dostepwiserecurse{1}{180}{1}{%
> \input chapter\recurselevel
> }
> \stoptext
> That produces 180 chapters of content.
> Anyway, my boss is upset she has to use a table of contents to navigate to
> the page she wants, and so wants me to split the file into 180 separate
> files, which somehow is going to be easier to look at. Honestly, she probably
> still won't ever actually look at it, but that's her requirement.
> The problem is, I've been splitting the file by using Print --> PDF and
> choosing a custom print range, and then saving it. If I ned to repeat that
> 180 times, it not only will have errors, but probably take 5-10 hours.
> Is there something I can put, like \breakpdf or something that will tell it
> to start a new PDF file? They can be named something like file1.pdf,
> file2.pdf, etc.
> \starttext
> \dostepwiserecurse{1}{136}{1}{%
> \input chapter\recurselevel
> \breakpdf
> }
> \stoptext
> The perhaps "obvious" answer is just make 180 *.tex files, but since the
> minimal example above is like 0.01% of the complexity of the real file, that
> isn't so easy...
Joel,
others have suggested mutool and pdftk, which could be half the solution
for you. (I use pdftk for things like this, but I assume mutool is just as
good. Either are far less tedious than printing to file.)
If the information of the chapter boundaries is available in the log file,
a judicious use of grep and a few lines of shell script code might do the
trick. Alternatively, you might be able to use a tool like pdfgrep to find
the page numbers from the PDF file, and then use a few lines of shell code.
If you are a Linux or Mac user, this should be "easy enough". I don't do
windows, but now that there is (as I understand it) a bash shell available,
you might also be able to use grep and/or pdfgrep there as well.
If the log file isn't currently sufficiently helpful, could you add
something to your "start a new chapter" command to write a comment into the
log file giving you exactly the information you need?
Jim
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