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This commit implements the .tex-based online help system in LON-CAPA. It
may be necessary to manually run loncom/build/help_graphics_converter.pl
and doc/help/rebuildLabelHash.pl after a cvs update, and
loncapa_apache.conf may need to be manually copied to /etc. (The
loncapafiles.lpml has been updated.)

After merging this, the URL http://[loncapahost]/adm/help/Foils.hlp
should display a help file.

Also, some *very* out-of-date files have been removed from the /doc
directory.

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\begin{figure}
\begin{center}\includegraphics[  width=0.80\paperwidth]{numericalResponse1}\end{center}


\caption{Numerical Response editor \label{Numerical Response Editor Figure}}
\end{figure}
A Numerical Response problem has seven major parts by default:

\begin{enumerate}
\item The \textbf{Script}. The script is the heart of advanced Numerical Response
problems. It can be used to decide some of the parameters of the problem,
compute the answer to the problem, and do just about anything else you can
imagine. The Script language is \textbf{Perl}. You do not need to know Perl
to use the \textbf{Script} block, as we will be stepping through some advanced
examples in this chapter, but knowing Perl can help.
\item Like other problem types, the \textbf{Text Block} is used to display the
problem the student will see. In addition, you can place variables in the
\textbf{Text Block} based on computations done in the \textbf{Script}.
\item The \textbf{Answer} is the answer the system is looking for. This can also
use parameters from the \textbf{Script} block, allowing the answer to be
computed dynamically.