--- doc/homework/homework5.html	2002/06/06 08:24:55	1.16
+++ doc/homework/homework5.html	2002/07/17 18:08:38	1.19
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 	    </ul>
 	  <li>
 	    <b>&lt;essayresponse&gt;</b> implements a ungraded large
-	    text response, it need an internal <b>&lt;textarea&gt;</b>
+	    text response, it need an internal <b>&lt;textfield&gt;</b>
 	    for the response to go in.
 	  </li>
 	  <li>
@@ -260,9 +260,9 @@ A message to be shown to the students
 	</p>
 	<ul>
 	  <li>
-	    <b>&lt;textarea&gt;</b> creates a Large text input box, If
+	    <b>&lt;textfield&gt;</b> creates a Large text input box, If
 	    data appears between the start and end tags, the data will
-	    appear i the textarea if the student has not yet made a
+	    appear in the textfield if the student has not yet made a
 	    submission. Additionally it takes two arguments <i>rows</i>
 	    and <i>cols</i> which control the height and width of the
 	    area respectively. It defaults to 10 and 80.
@@ -507,6 +507,12 @@ A message to be shown to the students
 	    the web editor knows what sections should be edited in a
 	    plain text block on the web.
 	  </li>
+	  <li>
+	    <b>&lt;comment&gt;</b> Allows one to comment out sections
+	    of code in a balanced manner, or to provide a comment
+	    description of how a problem works. Only shows up for the
+	    edit target, stripped out for all other targets.
+	  </li>
 	</ul>
       </li>
     </ul>
@@ -665,18 +671,24 @@ A message to be shown to the students
     <tr>
              <td valign="top">/DIS($x,"nn")</td>
              <td valign="top">&amp;format($x,"nn")</td>
-             <td valign="top">Display or format $x as nn where nn is nF or nE and n is an integer.</td>
+             <td valign="top">Display or format $x as nn where nn is nF or nE and n is an integer. Also supports the first character being a $, it thjen will format the result with a call to &dollarformat() described below.</td>
              <td valign="top">&nbsp;The difference is obvious.</td>
     </tr>
 
     <tr>
              <td valign="top">Not in CAPA</td>
              <td valign="top">&amp;prettyprint($x,"nn")</td>
-             <td valign="top">Display or format $x as nn where nn is nF or nE and n is an integer. In E mode it will attempt to generate a pretty x10^3 rather than a E3 following the number</td>
+             <td valign="top">Display or format $x as nn where nn is nF or nE and n is an integer. Also supports the first character being a $, it then will format the result with a a call to &dollarformat() described below. In E mode it will attempt to generate a pretty x10^3 rather than a E3 following the number</td>
              <td valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
     </tr>
 
     <tr>
+             <td valign="top">Not in CAPA</td>
+             <td valign="top">&amp;dollarformat($x</td>
+             <td valign="top">Reformats $x to have a $ (or \$ if in tex mode) and to have , grouping thousands.</td>
+             <td valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
              <td valign="top">roundto(x,n)</td>
              <td valign="top">&amp;roundto($x,$n)</td>
              <td valign="top">Rounds a real number to n decimal points. $x and
@@ -1147,7 +1159,7 @@ A message to be shown to the students
     <address><a href="mailto:albertel@marvin.lite.msu.edu">Guy Albertelli</a></address>
 <!-- Created: Thu May 17 15:05:35 EDT 2001 -->
 <!-- hhmts start -->
-Last modified: Thu Jun  6 04:28:33 EDT 2002
+Last modified: Fri Jul 12 21:28:44 EDT 2002
 <!-- hhmts end -->
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