Annotation of loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Authoring_HTML_vs_Tex.tex, revision 1.1
1.1 ! bowersj2 1: \label{Authoring_HTML_vs_Tex}
! 2: LON-CAPA renders resources in several formats, including on the web in
! 3: HTML and in LaTeX for renderings designed to be printed.
! 4:
! 5: When creating problems, it is possible to use LaTeX directly by using
! 6: the <m> tag\index{m tag}\index{tag, <m>} (see
! 7: \ref{Authoring_M_Tag}). Anything between the <m> tag in a resource
! 8: will be interpreted as .tex.
! 9:
! 10: However, this should be used as a last resort for when you wish to do
! 11: something that is impossible to do in HTML. LON-CAPA will convert to
! 12: and from LaTeX and HTML whenever necessary, and it is much easier (and
! 13: therefore more likely to work) to convert HTML to LaTeX then to go the
! 14: other direction, because HTML is so much simpler then LaTeX.
! 15:
! 16: Thus, given the choice of
! 17:
! 18: \texttt{H<sub>2</sub>O}
! 19:
! 20: or
! 21:
! 22: \texttt{<m >H\textbackslash{}subscript\{2\}O</m >}
! 23:
! 24: it is better to use the HMTL version.
! 25:
! 26: A necessarily-incomplete list of capabilities: LON-CAPA can convert
! 27: HTML tables in LaTeX tables, images into LaTeX images, LaTeX symbols
! 28: into HTML, and LaTeX math into HTML (though it does not usually look
! 29: as good as LaTeX).
! 30:
! 31: If you really wish to have the web rendering and the LaTeX rendering
! 32: do something different, perhaps because the automatically generated
! 33: LaTeX->HTML conversion did not do what you wanted, you can surround
! 34: your LaTeX with <tex> </tex>\index{tex tag}\index{tag, <tex>} tags,
! 35: and your HTML version with <web> </web>\index{web tag}\index{tag,
! 36: <web>} tags. The stuff placed between the <tex> tags will only show on
! 37: the LaTeX rendering of the resource, and the stuff placed between the
! 38: <web> tags will only show on the HTML web rendering of the resource.
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