Looking for examples of fill-in-the-blanks questions

[Charilaos Skiadas]

Hello, I’m looking for some examples of the proper way to do fill-in-the-blanks these days. I see a lot of info in https://pretextbook.org/doc/guide/html/topic-interactive-exercises.html#fill-in-exercises   referring to using <fillin />  but no actual full examples there. When I look at the sample book the only relevant examples I find are in rune.xml and they use a <var />  element. There is a paragraph in the guide that hints about some major effort starting at 2022-06-14 ( https://pretextbook.org/doc/guide/html/topic-interactive-exercises.html#fill-in-exercises-19 ) but it is not clear to me what part of all this is the new effort vs the old, and what I am supposed to use. Hoping for some clarifications.

Charilaos Skiadas
Department of Mathematics
Hanover College

[Andrew Scholer]

There are a number of new syntax fillins in, they just are scattered in the second part of the page.

https://pretextbook.org/examples/sample-book/noparts/html/fill-in-exercises.html

To identify the right ones, search the source code for that page for "fillin". It is in examples/sample-book/rune.xml

https://github.com/PreTeXtBook/pretext/blob/b31d10bd04eebc7387bb1d55b1e64a603533c3e0/examples/sample-book/rune.xml#L3864

Andrew Scholer (he/him/his)

Computer Science Instructor

Chemeketa Community College

503.589.7649 

computerscience.chemeketa.edu/people/andrew-scholer/

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[D. Brian Walton]

The sample article has more examples. See this page:

https://pretextbook.org/examples/sample-article/annotated/section-dynamic-exercises.html

Brian

[Rob Beezer]

And maybe the sample book needs to have Section 5.18 split into two. Old-style
problems for Runestone backward compatibility vs. new style dynamic problems
from Brian's work. I think its the first four versus the reat. (Somebody was
suggesting this recently?)

Exercises 5.18: Fill-In Exercises
https://pretextbook.org/examples/sample-book/noparts/html/fill-in-exercises.html#fill-in-exercises

Rob

On 6/2/25 13:20, D. Brian Walton wrote:
> The sample article has more examples. See this page:
> https://pretextbook.org/examples/sample-article/annotated/section-dynamic-

> exercises.html <https://pretextbook.org/examples/sample-article/annotated/
> section-dynamic-exercises.html>

>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM Charilaos Skiadas <cski...@gmail.com
> <mailto:cski...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello, I’m looking for some examples of the proper way to do fill-in-the-
> blanks these days. I see a lot of info in https://pretextbook.org/doc/guide/

> html/topic-interactive-exercises.html#fill-in-exercises <https://
> pretextbook.org/doc/guide/html/topic-interactive-exercises.html#fill-in-
> exercises>   referring to using <fillin />  but no actual full examples

> there. When I look at the sample book the only relevant examples I find are
> in rune.xml and they use a <var />  element. There is a paragraph in the
> guide that hints about some major effort starting at 2022-06-14 ( https://
> pretextbook.org/doc/guide/html/topic-interactive-exercises.html#fill-in-

> exercises-19 <https://pretextbook.org/doc/guide/html/topic-interactive-
> exercises.html#fill-in-exercises-19> ) but it is not clear to me what part

> of all this is the new effort vs the old, and what I am supposed to use.
> Hoping for some clarifications.
>
> Charilaos Skiadas
> Department of Mathematics
> Hanover College
>
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