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1.9       lira        1: \label{Creating_New_Content_Pages}
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                      3: \index{HTML pages}Many users use tools stand-alone editing programs such as Dreamweaver to create 
                      4: HTML files. To upload HTML
                      5: files generated with such tools, you can use the \textbf{Browse...} button in
                      6: the Authoring Space, locate your HTML file, and use the \textbf{Upload
                      7: File} button to upload a HTML file in LON-CAPA. Remember to upload any local
                      8: graphics your generated web pages may have referenced using similar procedures. The links to graphics in your html page must match the relative locations for the uploaded files.
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1.11    ! lira       10: To create a new html page using the Inline Menus, browse to the desired folder using the folder navigation links 
        !            11: in the lower part of the authoring screen. Then select 'HTML file' from the new content dropdown menu on the 
        !            12: right of the authoring space page as shown in the dropdown menu of the figure \ref{New Content Menu}.
        !            13: 
        !            14: You will be presented with a plain text editor as shown in the figure \ref{Plain Text HTML Editor}. Clicking 
        !            15: the link for the Rich Formatting displays the HTML WYSIWYG editor with buttons to help you create html entities
        !            16: with correct tags as shown in the figure \ref{Rich Text HTML Editor}. If the rich layout is not as you expect, look
        !            17: for the button to view/edit the source, and then manually make adjustments to the html tags. Note that buttons are
        !            18: available to select graphics to include in the HTML file. Buttons are also provided to create/edit links.
        !            19: 
        !            20: To create equations, you can use the 'Edit Math' button in the plain text editor, or you can type LATEX equations
        !            21: directly in the \texttt{<m></m>} tags in the plain text editor. The 'Edit Math' button launches a pop-up window
        !            22: containing the DragMath equation editor (Java plugin supprt in user's
        !            23: browser required).  The pop-up includes a "Render LaTeX" button which
        !            24: can be clicked to insert the math expression composed in Drag Math as
        !            25: LaTeX within <m>$ $</m> in the file editor in the original window.
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                     27: Note that convenient help links for \textbf{Greek Symbols, Other Symbols, and Output Tags}\index{Greek symbols}\index{symbols, html}\index{output tags} immediately above the editor in the figures. Also note the link to check spelling below the editor.\index{spelling checker}
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                     29: The URL of the page in the root of your space would look something like
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1.10      lira       31: \emph{http://(your library server)/priv/username/new\_resource.html} .
1.9       lira       32: \begin{figure}
                     33: \begin{center}\includegraphics[  width=0.80\paperwidth]{html_page_plaintext}\end{center}
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                     35: 
                     36: \caption{Plain Text HTML Editor}\label{Plain Text HTML Editor}
                     37: \end{figure}
                     38: \begin{figure}
                     39: \begin{center}\includegraphics[  width=0.80\paperwidth]{html_page_richtext}\end{center}
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                     41: 
                     42: \caption{Rich Text HTML Editor}\label{Rich Text HTML Editor}
                     43: \end{figure}
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