# [LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom /html/adm/help/tex Creating_New_Content_Pages.tex

lira lira at source.lon-capa.org
Mon Jul 8 14:14:03 EDT 2013

lira		Mon Jul  8 18:14:03 2013 EDT

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Log:
improve description of math editor

--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Creating_New_Content_Pages.tex:1.10	Fri Jul  5 18:30:40 2013
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Creating_New_Content_Pages.tex	Mon Jul  8 18:14:03 2013
@@ -7,11 +7,22 @@
File} button to upload a HTML file in LON-CAPA. Remember to upload any local
graphics your generated web pages may have referenced using similar procedures. The links to graphics in your html page must match the relative locations for the uploaded files.

-To create a new html page using the Inline Menus, browse to the desired folder using the folder navigation links in the lower part of the authoring screen. Then select 'HTML file' from the new content dropdown menu on the right of the authoring space page as shown in the dropdown menu of the figure \ref{New Content Menu}.
-
-You will be presented with a plain text editor as shown in the figure \ref{Plain Text HTML Editor}. Clicking the link for the Rich Formatting displays the HTML WYSIWYG editor with buttons to help you create html entities with correct tags as shown in the figure \ref{Rich Text HTML Editor}. If the rich layout is not as you expect, look for the button to view/edit the source, and then manually make adjustments to the html tags. Note that buttons are available to select graphics to include in the HTML file. Buttons are also provided to create/edit links.
-
-To create equations, you can use the 'Edit Math' button in the plain text editor, or you can type LATEX equations directly in the \texttt{<m></m>} tags in the plain text editor.
+To create a new html page using the Inline Menus, browse to the desired folder using the folder navigation links
+in the lower part of the authoring screen. Then select 'HTML file' from the new content dropdown menu on the
+right of the authoring space page as shown in the dropdown menu of the figure \ref{New Content Menu}.
+
+You will be presented with a plain text editor as shown in the figure \ref{Plain Text HTML Editor}. Clicking
+the link for the Rich Formatting displays the HTML WYSIWYG editor with buttons to help you create html entities
+with correct tags as shown in the figure \ref{Rich Text HTML Editor}. If the rich layout is not as you expect, look
+for the button to view/edit the source, and then manually make adjustments to the html tags. Note that buttons are
+available to select graphics to include in the HTML file. Buttons are also provided to create/edit links.
+
+To create equations, you can use the 'Edit Math' button in the plain text editor, or you can type LATEX equations
+directly in the \texttt{<m></m>} tags in the plain text editor. The 'Edit Math' button launches a pop-up window
+containing the DragMath equation editor (Java plugin supprt in user's
+browser required).  The pop-up includes a "Render LaTeX" button which
+can be clicked to insert the math expression composed in Drag Math as
+LaTeX within <m></m> in the file editor in the original window.

Note that convenient help links for \textbf{Greek Symbols, Other Symbols, and Output Tags}\index{Greek symbols}\index{symbols, html}\index{output tags} immediately above the editor in the figures. Also note the link to check spelling below the editor.\index{spelling checker}