[LON-CAPA-users] Algebra Expression Rendering in LON-CAPA

[Harding, Gene L]

Hi Damien,



Thanks for your reply. At least now I know that I was chasing the wind. I was able to get close by using Sigma in place of sum in the expression, but then only the "n" was subscripted, not the "=1" part, even though I used braces: _{n=1}...



I had initially tried to render the equation in the xml portion of the problem, but when I did that I had a lot of trouble properly displaying some of the variables using the <m>$...$</m> command. It worked in some places but not others.



This is as close as I have been able to get to a proper expression:

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In the xml portion I have been able to render it nicely:

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...but only if I hard-code the constants in the two fractions and inside the sine. Is there a way to display variable values from the perl script in place of the constants? I have tried a few things, but all were unsuccessful.



Thanks,



Gene L. Harding, PE

Associate Professor of ECET

574-520-4190

Purdue University-South Bend



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> This is the call from the xml to render it:

>

> <center> <algebra>$function</algebra></center>



The algebra element has its own syntax. I do not know if it is documented, but we can look at the code at

http://source.lon-capa.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/loncom/xml/algebra/AlgParser.pm?rev=1.18



The regular expressions used to recognized functions are:

my $trigfname = '(?:(?:a(?:rc)?)?(?:sin|cos|tan|sec|csc|cot)h?)';

my $otherfunc =

'(?:exp|abs|logten|log|ln|sqrt|sgn|step|fact|int|lim|fun[a-zA-Z])';



There is no sum. To display a sum, you could use the TeX syntax as Gerd suggested, within <m>$ $</m>.



Damien

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