--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Authoring_Output_Tags.tex 2005/02/24 22:22:39 1.2
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Authoring_Output_Tags.tex 2005/09/29 21:13:07 1.5
@@ -4,6 +4,31 @@
This group of tags generates useful output.
\begin{itemize}
+\item \textbf{algebra}\index{algebra}: Typesets algebraic expressions
+\begin{verbatim}
+ 2x^y+sqrt(3/x^2)
+\end{verbatim}
+\item \textbf{chem}\index{chem}: Typesets chemical equation
+\begin{verbatim}
+ 02 + 2H2 -> 2H20
+\end{verbatim}
+\item \textbf{num}\index{num}: Typesets a number
+\begin{verbatim}
+ 31454678
+\end{verbatim}
+\item \textbf{parse}\index{parse}: to display the parsed view of a variable's
+contents
+\begin{verbatim}
+
+ \$table
+\end{verbatim}
+
\item \textbf{standalone}\index{standalone}: Everything inbetween the
start and end tag is shown only on the web and only if the resource
is not part of a course.
@@ -16,10 +41,16 @@ in a problem will show the title; this a
in stylesheets.
\item \textbf{window}\index{window}: The text inbetween is put in a pop-up
javascript window.
+
\item \textbf{m}\index{m}: The inside text is \LaTeX{}, and is converted
-to HTML (or MathML) on the fly. If the attribute \textbf{eval} is
-set to {}``\textbf{on}'' the intervening text will have a perl variable
-expansion done to it before being converted.
+to HTML (or MathML) on the fly. If the attribute \textbf{eval} is set
+to {}``\textbf{on}'' the intervening text will have a perl variable
+expansion done to it before being converted. The default is to convert
+to the display mechanism that the user has selected. This can be
+overriden by setting the attribute \textbf{display} to one of
+``\textbf{tth}'' or ``\textbf{jsMath}'' or ``\textbf{mimetex}''which
+will force a specfic display mechanism.
+
\item \textbf{randomlabel}\index{randomlabel}: This shows a specified image
with images or text labels randomly assigned to a set of specific
locations. Those locations may also have values assigned to them.
@@ -45,7 +76,9 @@ labels to values, and locations to value
-\end{verbatim} Possible attributes are:
+\end{verbatim}
+
+ Possible attributes are:
\begin{itemize}
\item \textbf{bgimg}\index{bgimg}: Either a fully qualified URL for an