[LON-CAPA-users] latex or xhtml in problems?

[Lars Jensen]

Hi Ray,

Thanks for the info. 

 * Is there any documentaion on the <tex> and <web> tags anywhere? I 
   didn't even know about them. 

 * Also, what is the difference between the <m> and the <tex> tag?

 * Have you got the Printout button to work? (The one in Construction
   space.) I can't get to work at all. I can only print with PRT from
   the remote control.

There's a bug with the <m> tag, by the way. Please check out:

	http://bugzilla.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=918

Lars.

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Ray Batchelor wrote:

> Hi Lars,
>              If having the printout out work is importantant to you, then I 
> would suggest putting the tex inside <tex></tex> tags and the html inside 
> <web></web> tags.   I have found, for simple things, using only xhtml  is OK,  
> but I run into problems when hoping to rely on that alone to produce 
> something that works and looks reasonable in the printout.   
> I'm going a little "cool" on the <m> tag.  
> No doubt, someone will tell me that that is because I don't understand it.
> 
> :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Ray
> 
> On October 30, 2002 11:41 am, Lars Jensen wrote:
> > What is the cleaner way of writing problems? 
> > In latex or in xhtml? 
> > 
> > Let's say that I have a longer problem with several header tags, lists,
> > tables. I have a choice of typesetting these in latex, or in xhtml. What
> > should I choose? 
> > 
> > One example might be something like this:
> > 
> > -----begin problem text-------
> > 
> > \section*{Problem with a Table}
> > 
> > Here is a table:
> > 
> > {\centering \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
> > \hline 
> > \textbf{a}&
> > \textbf{b}&
> > \textbf{c}\\
> > \hline
> > \hline 
> > A&
> > B&
> > C\\
> > \hline
> > \end{tabular}\par}
> > 
> > What is the entry in the first colums, second row?
> > 
> > -----end problem test-------
> > 
> > This problem has a table and some formatting in it. If I include above
> > latex code in a pair of m-tags it should will come out fine both on 
> > a web page and on a printout for the student.
> > 
> > For the web, the same problem could be generated in xhtml code. If I
> > wrote the problem in xhtml, though, would it come out nicely (or 
> > at all?) on a printout? 
> > 
> > It seems that the preferred way to problems that contain some formatting
> > is with latex. The above latex was written in LyX in less than one
> > minute, then I exported the problem text as latex, and pasted it into
> > the lon-capa editor. 
> > 
> > Any comments on the best way code problems appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Lars.
> > 
> > --
> > Lars Jensen, TMCC/Vista B200, 7000 Dandini Blvd, Reno NV 89512-3999. 
> > Internet: <jensen@physics.unr.edu>, http://www.scsr.nevada.edu/~jensen
> > Tel: 775.673.7113  FAX: 775.674.7592
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Lars Jensen, TMCC/Vista B200, 7000 Dandini Blvd, Reno NV 89512-3999. 
Internet: <jensen@physics.unr.edu>, http://www.scsr.nevada.edu/~jensen
Tel: 775.673.7113  FAX: 775.674.7592