[LON-CAPA-users] Possible bug in printing composite pages?

[Stuart Raeburn]

Rex,

That would be a bug.

This issue occurs when the print option: "Selected Resources from page  
<name of page>" is chosen for a composite page, and the first selected  
item is an HTML file.

I have filed a bug, see: http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6840  
, and have implemented a solution; see the bug report for details,  
including how to patch a 2.11.1 LON-CAPA instance to eliminate the bug.

If you don't want to make changes server-side at this time, a  
workaround is to add a published problem (containing a <part>) as the  
first resource, and then include the part ID for that single part in  
the setting for "List of hidden parts" for the resource in the course.  
(You might also set the weight parameter to zero).  If you do that,  
the unwanted LaTeX header will be absent from the PDF printout  
(although there will be a horizontal rule -- i.e., the separator  
between the first (blank) resource and the next item (the content of  
the HTML file, which is the second resource).


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

Quoting Rex Abert <ABERTR at tcc.fl.edu>:

>
>
> I've noticed that when printing composite pages that are assembled   
> from html files and problems, some of the LaTeX junk from the   
> preamble ends up on the pdf file.  Has anyone encountered this and   
> found a work-around?
>
> Here is a link to a sample printout of a composite page
>
> http://www.math.fsu.edu/~rabert/05binomialTheorem.pdf
>
> Here is the beginning of the TeX file for the pdf created by Lon-Capa:
>
>
>
> % &Apache::lonxml::londefdef
> \documentclass[letterpaper,twoside]{article}\raggedbottom\batchmode\newcommand{\keephidden}[1]{}\renewcommand{\deg}{$^{\circ}$}\usepackage{multirow}\usepackage{longtable}\usepackage{textcomp}\usepackage{makeidx}\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}\usepackage{wrapfig}\usepackage{picins}\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage[postscript]{ucs}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{pifont}
> \usepackage{latexsym}
> \usepackage{epsfig}\usepackage{xtab}
> \usepackage{tabularx}
> \usepackage{booktabs}
> \usepackage{array}
> \usepackage{colortbl}
> \usepackage{xcolor}
> \usepackage{calc}\usepackage{longtable}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{soul}\usepackage{amssymb}\usepackage{amsfonts}\usepackage{amsthm}\usepackage{amscd}\usepackage{picins}\usepackage{calc}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage[postscript]{ucs}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{pifont}
> \newenvironment{choicelist}{\begin{list}{}{\setlength{\rightmargin}{0in}\setlength{\leftmargin}{0.13in}\setlength{\topsep}{0.05in}\setlength{\itemsep}{0.022in}\setlength{\parsep}{0in}\setlength{\belowdisplayskip}{0.04in}\setlength{\abovedisplayskip}{0.05in}\setlength{\abovedisplayshortskip}{-0.04in}\setlength{\belowdisplayshortskip}{0.04in}}}{\end{list}}\renewenvironment{theindex}{\begin{list}{}{{\vskip 1mm \noindent \large\textbf{Index}} \newline \setlength{\rightmargin}{0in}\setlength{\leftmargin}{0.13in}\setlength{\topsep}{0.01in}\setlength{\itemsep}{0.1in}\setlength{\parsep}{-0.02in}\setlength{\belowdisplayskip}{0.01in}\setlength{\abovedisplayskip}{0.01in}\setlength{\abovedisplayshortskip}{-0.04in}\setlength{\belowdisplayshortskip}{0.01in}}}{\end{list}}\textheight 9.1 in \oddsidemargin= -0.25 in \evensidemargin= -0.25 in  \setlength{\topmargin}{0.275   
> in}
> \textwidth= 7.1 in   
> \newlength{\minipagewidth}\setlength{\minipagewidth}{\textwidth/1-0.2cm}
> \renewcommand{\ref}{\keephidden}\usepackage{fancyhdr}\addtolength{\headheight}{\baselineskip}\pagestyle{fancy}\rhead{}\chead{}\lhead{\textbf{Rex Abert} - MAC 1140, Fall 2016 \hfill \thepage \\ \textit{Learning Module - Binomial   
> Theorem}}\usepackage{booktabs}\usepackage[USenglish]{babel}
> \begin{document}{\normalsize
> \voffset=-0.8 cm\setcounter{page}{1}
> % &Apache::lonxml::londefdef
> \documentclass[letterpaper,twoside]{article}\raggedbottom\batchmode\newcommand{\keephidden}[1]{}\renewcommand{\deg}{$^{\circ}$}\usepackage{multirow}\usepackage{longtable}\usepackage{textcomp}\usepackage{makeidx}\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}\usepackage{wrapfig}\usepackage{picins}\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage[postscript]{ucs}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{pifont}
> \usepackage{latexsym}
> \usepackage{epsfig}\usepackage{xtab}
> \usepackage{tabularx}
> \usepackage{booktabs}
> \usepackage{array}
> \usepackage{colortbl}
> \usepackage{xcolor}
> \usepackage{calc}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{soul}\usepackage{amssymb}\usepackage{amsfonts}\usepackage{amsthm}\usepackage{amscd}\usepackage{picins}\usepackage{calc}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage[postscript]{ucs}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{pifont}
> \newenvironment{choicelist}{\begin{list}{}{\setlength{\rightmargin}{0in}\setlength{\leftmargin}{0.13in}\setlength{\topsep}{0.05in}\setlength{\itemsep}{0.022in}\setlength{\parsep}{0in}\setlength{\belowdisplayskip}{0.04in}\setlength{\abovedisplayskip}{0.05in}\setlength{\abovedisplayshortskip}{-0.04in}\setlength{\belowdisplayshortskip}{0.04in}}}{\end{list}}\renewenvironment{theindex}{\begin{list}{}{{\vskip 1mm \noindent \large\textbf{Index}} \newline   
> \setlength{\rightmargin}{0in}\setlength{\leftmargin}{0.13in}\setlength{\topsep}{0.01in}\setlength{\itemsep}{0.1in}\setlength{\parsep}{-0.02in}\setlength{\belowdisplayskip}{0.01in}\setlength{\abovedisplayskip}{0.01in}\setlength{\abovedisplayshortskip}{-0.04in}\setlength{\belowdisplayshortskip}{0.01in}}}{\end{list}}\begin{document}
> \keephidden{Title of the document: The Binomial Theorem}
> \strut\newline {\large \textbf{The Binomial Theorem}}\vskip 0 mm
> \par \strut\\\strut
> The Binomial Theorem provides a method for the expansion of a   
> binomial raised to a power. For this class, we will be looking at   
> binomials raised to whole number powers, in the form \ensuremath{   
> (A+B)^n }.
> \par \strut\\\strut
>
> (....document continues)
>
> Rex Abert
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> Tallahassee Community College
>
>
>
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