> On 18 Feb 2025, at 10:13, denisma...@mailbox.org wrote:
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Bruce Horrocks <n...@scorecrow.com>
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Februar 2025 01:00
>> An: ntg-context mailing list <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
>> Betreff: [NTG-context] Re: Are paths resolved relative to file location or
>> calling
>> location?
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 17 Feb 2025, at 14:42, denis.ma...@unibe.ch wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a (simplified) project structure like this:
>>> root-folder
>>> /asset
>>> /tex
>>> /results
>>> /source
>>> My tex file is stored under assets, the source is an xml file under source,
>>> the
>> pdf should be saved under results.
>>> If I call context from within the assets folder, the pdf is created
>>> as expected, but if I call context from the results folder, I get an
>>> error message saying that the xml file is not found. As the file is
>>> created properly when I call context from the assets folder, I assume
>>> context performs lookups based on the calling location (not the file
>>> location). Is that correct? Is there a simple way to call context from
>>> the results folder and still have the sources found, or do I have to
>>> call context from the assets folder and copy/move the result
>>> afterwards? Best, Denis
>>
>> I have something similar where I want to be able to either create an entire
>> magazine from the root level or just an individual article (to send to the
>> author
>> for proofing) from the articles sub-directory. I spent ages looking into the
>> project structure and eventually realised that the simple solution was to put
>> two \usepath statements into my project.tex file. :-)
>>
>> So I have:
>>
>> \usepath [environments,articles]
>> \usepath [../environments,../articles]
>>
>> For you that might translate to:
>>
>> \usepath [asset,asset/tex,results,source]
>> \usepath [../asset,../asset/tex,../results,../source]
>>
>> which should work from root and one level down but probably not from two
>> levels down i.e. not from within ./asset/tex. For that you might need a third
>> \usepath with ../../asset etc.
>
> Thanks, Bruce. That looks promising. And when \inputing the files, do you
> just do \input{file.tex} or \input{dir/file.tex}. With usepath, specifying
> the directory shouldn't be necessary anymore, right?
I very rarely use \input. At the magazine level the individual articles are
pulled in using \component[filename.tex]. Sometimes, within an article, there
might need to be a \input to bring in some extra material, and I just specify
the file name, without any directory part, which seems to work both for setting
the whole magazine or a single article, but I've not experimented to see what
the limits are.
Regards,
—
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK
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