Introductions and conclusions for #task on Runestone assignment page

[Rob Beezer]

By popular request, #introduction that precede #task, and #conclusion that
follow #task, are now replicated for each #task when built into the Runestone
manifest. So they are part of a problem (each individual task) available to an
instructor/student in Runestone's assignment builder/page. These accumulate, as
tasks are nested (to an arbitrary depth, even if we only support 3-deep elsewhere).

Some very tight XSL, so that was a treat, and heavily tested. But not actually
employed via a Runestone server. So feedback/confirmation from early adopters
(Sean!) is welcome.

Rob

[Chrissy Safranski]

Awesome, thank you!  I've been wanting this.  

However, I'm not actually seeing the introduction appear on the Runestone assignment page. I just rebuilt it, Runestone's author server is 2.28.2, so I think it should have worked and I should be seeing the introduction along with every task.  But all I see is the task itself.  For Brad (or anyone else who wants to join my course, I guess): the assignment where I'm seeing this behavior is 1.1 Participate in the course Franciscan_matrixtheoryIsecA_F25

I can confirm that Desmos now works on the Runestone assignment page!

Chrissy

[Rob Beezer]

Are you *sure* the changes to PreTeXt are reflected in the CLI release being
used by Runestone?

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[Chrissy Safranski]

Answers to activities in back matter are now showing up in Active Calculus, and they weren't until CLI version 2.28.2. The date on the front of my book in Runestone says today.  I conclude that I really did rebuild it with 2.28.2. 

I didn't check the rebuild assets box because it didn't occur to me that non-webwork questions would need regeneration. Let me check that now... Nope, still no introductions on my tasks on the Runestone assignment page. 

Maybe these changes aren't actually in CLI 2.28.2?

Chrissy

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[Sean Fitzpatrick]

I can try to test tomorrow, or maybe tonight, but if this isn't yet in the CLI it might take a minute, as my server is not set up to run the pretext/pretext script. 

I can work around this not being in Runestone by building in Runestone, and then rebuilding the HTML outside of Runestone. But I'm not sure if that will make its way through to the assignment page.

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[Rob Beezer]

Find which commit the CLI was built with and then review the history for the
PreTeXt repo.

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[Andrew Scholer]

Sean -

If you build by hand, you can rune Runestone's process-manifest command to get the contents into the DB.

runestone process-manifest --course COURSE_NAME --manifest PATH_TO_OUTPUT/runestone-manifest.xml

[Sean Fitzpatrick]

Andrew: runestone, or rsmanage?

I don't have Runestone installed via pip.

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[Andrew Scholer]

runestone

It should be part of the runestone virtual environment, which must exist on your server. Try:
poetry shell
In your RS directory to activate the RS environment. "runestone" should then be available as a command. Try this to verify:
runestone --help

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[Sean Fitzpatrick]

I think if I'm using Docker containers I want something like rsmanage build --manifest bookname

[Andrew Scholer]

rsmanage build --manifest
will do the build using the CLI (unless you have hacked it up) and then process the manifest into the DB

The runestone command will just process the manifest. If you are trying to build manually not using the CLI and then put stuff into the database, you will want to use it.

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[Sean Fitzpatrick]

Got it, thanks! 

I can confirm that the introduction now appears on the assignment page. 

Hooray! 

There is one (at least one?) small glitch: 

If the introduction contains an image, and the image has a (long) description, the info icon isn't loaded.

Instead there's a rectangle with an X through it. But clicking on this does produce the description, so it's just the icon.

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[Oscar Levin]

So I take it this means there needs to be a new CLI release?  I can do that tonight.

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[Sean Fitzpatrick]

At the very least, I suspect PROTEUS instructors would like to see this before their classes begin.

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[Oscar Levin]

Version 2.29.0 of the CLI is deploying as I type this.  Needs to be updated on Runestone, of course.

[Oscar Levin]

Slight delay in publishing the latest version while I wait for the runestone webwork certificate to update.  But it should happen soon.

[Bradley Miller]

I have rebuilt the author server and 2.29.0 is live for authors.

Brad

Brad Miller
Professor Emeritus, Luther College
Founder, Runestone Academy LTD
Blog: http://reputablejournal.com

Set up a time to meet with me.

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[Chrissy Safranski]

I can confirm that the introduction is being loaded along with the task on the assignment page!

Thanks all,

Chrissy

[David Austin]

This is great news.  Do authors need to rebuild their books?

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[Rob Beezer]

On 8/27/25 18:34, David Austin wrote:
> Do authors need to rebuild their books?

Yes, this will not happen without a doing a fresh build.