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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.