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- \texttt for &EXT() call.

    1: \label{Course_Prefs_Other}
    2: This panel lets you set the course/community environment variable: ``reshome'', which will 
    3: have been set to /res/coursedomain (where coursedomain is the course's domain) when the course 
    4: was first created.
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    6: The variable ``reshome'' determines where the \underbar{Home} link points to when a Course Coordinator 
    7: displays the virtual filesystem used to browse or import content from the shared content pool.
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    9: This panel also lets you create your own course environment variables, which, for example, could be 
   10: accessed when rendering a homework problem by accessing the variable via \texttt{\&EXT(\char`\"{}course.myvariablename\char`\"{})},
   11: where ``myvariablename'' is the name assigned in the ``Create New Environment Variable'' textbox.  In course context the value set in the textbox in the ``Value'' column would be retrieved by the \&EXT() call. See the ``Table: LON-CAPA Functions'' section in the Authoring manual for more information about \&EXT(). 
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