[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom /html/adm/help/tex Author_LON-CAPA_Introduction.tex

[lira]

lira		Wed Aug 14 03:33:06 2013 EDT

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    /loncom/html/adm/help/tex	Author_LON-CAPA_Introduction.tex 
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  added instructions on how to create comment lines in perl and xml
  
  
Index: loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Author_LON-CAPA_Introduction.tex
diff -u loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Author_LON-CAPA_Introduction.tex:1.5 loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Author_LON-CAPA_Introduction.tex:1.6
--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Author_LON-CAPA_Introduction.tex:1.5	Mon Aug  5 00:36:18 2013
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Author_LON-CAPA_Introduction.tex	Wed Aug 14 03:33:06 2013
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 Two computer algebra systems are interfaced to LON-CAPA, Maxima and R. This provides for algebra and calculus problems and responses. The R system has strong capabilities for statistics. Special script functions are provided to call Maxima and R to generate correct responses for a randomized problem, and also to check student responses.
 
+\textbf{Comments}
+
+Commenting you xml and scripts is important for both you and other users. Commenting within a loncapa/perl script 
+is denoted with a \#. This can be entered anwhere in a line and the remainder of the line will be ignored when
+parsing. Problems are coded in xml. Comments in xml are of the format \texttt{<!-- comment -->}.\index{comment markers}
+