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8/1/17

Error Report Guidelines

If you have output that you think might be incorrect or misbehaved, please follow this procedure:

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Error Report Guidelines

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8/1/17

Federico Galetto, … Oscar Levin6

Aug 18

Suppressing print preview in web

Hi Oscar! I will try to lay out where this is all coming from. I am converting old LaTeX notes where

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Suppressing print preview in web

Hi Oscar! I will try to lay out where this is all coming from. I am converting old LaTeX notes where

Aug 18

Francesca Gandini

Aug 18

Fixing deployment from an old setup

Hi everyone, I have a pretext book whose web version used to work ok with deployment set up from a

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Fixing deployment from an old setup

Hi everyone, I have a pretext book whose web version used to work ok with deployment set up from a

Aug 18

Sean Fitzpatrick, Rob Beezer3

Aug 17

Adjusting styling of answers in the appendix

A lot of this comes down to "Greg wants it to look like it used to on LaTeX". In this case

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Adjusting styling of answers in the appendix

A lot of this comes down to "Greg wants it to look like it used to on LaTeX". In this case

Aug 17

Federico Galetto, … Rob Beezer10

Aug 16

Hide proofs in print

Dear Mitch, On 7/5/26 12:48, Mitch Keller wrote: > You can accomplish this using versions. How I

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Hide proofs in print

Dear Mitch, On 7/5/26 12:48, Mitch Keller wrote: > You can accomplish this using versions. How I

Aug 16

Federico Galetto, Rob Beezer5

Aug 16

Reducing the number of pages

Haha, thank you! I will try to sort everything else out first before trying anything that might make

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Reducing the number of pages

Haha, thank you! I will try to sort everything else out first before trying anything that might make

Aug 16

Federico Galetto, Rob Beezer5

Aug 16

Table of contents for each part

Yes, thank you for the clarification! Cheers, Fred On Sunday, August 16, 2026 at 5:12:46 PM UTC-4 Rob

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Table of contents for each part

Yes, thank you for the clarification! Cheers, Fred On Sunday, August 16, 2026 at 5:12:46 PM UTC-4 Rob

Aug 16

Kyle Monette, Rob Beezer3

Aug 14

Alternative to <interactive> in <sidebyside>?

And I suspect #handout is not refined, even though I think I moved it out of the dev version a couple

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Alternative to <interactive> in <sidebyside>?

And I suspect #handout is not refined, even though I think I moved it out of the dev version a couple

Aug 14

Charles M, Charles M3

Aug 14

Live preview -- new, strange behaviour

I reverted PreTeXt-tools to 1.2.1, and all is well. Charles On Thursday, August 13, 2026 at 6:12:50

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Live preview -- new, strange behaviour

I reverted PreTeXt-tools to 1.2.1, and all is well. Charles On Thursday, August 13, 2026 at 6:12:50

Aug 14

Mitch Keller, Rob Beezer3

Aug 13

Suppressing WeBWorK solutions in solutions manual

Thanks, Mitch! I'd worked up a solution, but had not had time to write a sketch. We can talk at

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Suppressing WeBWorK solutions in solutions manual

Thanks, Mitch! I'd worked up a solution, but had not had time to write a sketch. We can talk at

Aug 13

Charles M, … David W. Farmer5

Aug 11

Knowl'ing an xref

Dear Charles, No problem, and this actually is something we need to warn people about. If you want to

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Knowl'ing an xref

Dear Charles, No problem, and this actually is something we need to warn people about. If you want to

Aug 11

Teresa “Terri” Magnus, Mitch Keller3

Aug 10

Good in Prefigure Playground Not in Pretext Document

Thank you. That was the issue. Sorry I didn't catch that myself.--Terri On Monday, August 10,

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Good in Prefigure Playground Not in Pretext Document

Thank you. That was the issue. Sorry I didn't catch that myself.--Terri On Monday, August 10,

Aug 10

Charles M, Rob Beezer3

Aug 10

Slides: vertical alignment of content in PDF output

Rob, Moments ago, I ran another PreTeXt update from VS pretext-tools, and this change that you made

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Slides: vertical alignment of content in PDF output

Rob, Moments ago, I ran another PreTeXt update from VS pretext-tools, and this change that you made

Aug 10

David Clark, … Rob Beezer7

Aug 9

Duplicating a theorem (without a new number)

We've thought of everything (almost). Just not enough time to implement it all... On August 9,

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Duplicating a theorem (without a new number)

We've thought of everything (almost). Just not enough time to implement it all... On August 9,

Aug 9

David Austin, … Rob Beezer8

Aug 8

That looks good now. Thanks for your work on this, Brad! On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 7:19 PM 'Rob

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That looks good now. Thanks for your work on this, Brad! On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 7:19 PM 'Rob

Aug 8

Aug 6

Ordered List Markers in PreTeXt.Plus

Hello! I'm experiencing issues with changing the markers with ordered lists in PreTeXt.Plus. Here

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Ordered List Markers in PreTeXt.Plus

Hello! I'm experiencing issues with changing the markers with ordered lists in PreTeXt.Plus. Here

Aug 6

Barbara Ericson, Louis Aloia2

Aug 6

Can an aside open in another tab?

I don't believe that an aside will open a file in another browser tab. I used dataurl in py4e-int

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Can an aside open in another tab?

I don't believe that an aside will open a file in another browser tab. I used dataurl in py4e-int

Aug 6

Barbara Ericson, Louis Aloia3

Aug 6

How to read from an html file in a program in PreText?

Thank you! I was able to get it to work. I had to edit the HTML file to add the <![CDATA[ at the

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How to read from an html file in a program in PreText?

Thank you! I was able to get it to work. I had to edit the HTML file to add the <![CDATA[ at the

Aug 6

OHappyDay, Mitch Keller3

Aug 6

Ah, ok. Thanks for the explanation. mi...@rellek.net schrieb am Donnerstag, 6. August 2026 um 15:07:

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Ah, ok. Thanks for the explanation. mi...@rellek.net schrieb am Donnerstag, 6. August 2026 um 15:07:

Aug 6

Barbara Ericson, Andrew Scholer4

Aug 5

How to access database files in PreText?

Thank you. I was able to use program interactive="activecode" language="sql"

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How to access database files in PreText?

Thank you. I was able to use program interactive="activecode" language="sql"

Aug 5

Savanna Gee, … Oscar Levin5

Aug 5

PreTeXt.Plus for Course Coordination

The Canvas embed definitely works for books written on PreTeXt plus. You can also set a build option

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PreTeXt.Plus for Course Coordination

The Canvas embed definitely works for books written on PreTeXt plus. You can also set a build option

Aug 5

Aadarsh Padiyath, Rob Beezer9

Aug 4

Adding options for CodeTailor on Runestone

I tested it in a book with an OpenAI API key, and it works perfectly! Runestone will not be backing

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Adding options for CodeTailor on Runestone

I tested it in a book with an OpenAI API key, and it works perfectly! Runestone will not be backing

Aug 4

Kyle Monette, … Rob Beezer7

Aug 3

Print preview issues with Scorm / html

PR looks fine, I've asked Oscar to review. Generally we do not want the "dist" files in

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Print preview issues with Scorm / html

PR looks fine, I've asked Oscar to review. Generally we do not want the "dist" files in

Aug 3

Charles M, Rob Beezer2

Aug 3

Long URLs and print output (a hint)

We like a wee bit of advice, maybe more than a wee dram. We did something similar, automatically for

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Long URLs and print output (a hint)

We like a wee bit of advice, maybe more than a wee dram. We did something similar, automatically for

Aug 3

Aug 3

Schema: Footnote inside quote

VS returns "<fn> is not allowed here" for the snippet below which includes @fn

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Schema: Footnote inside quote

VS returns "<fn> is not allowed here" for the snippet below which includes @fn

Aug 3

OHappyDay, … Rob Beezer11

Jul 31

Naming conventions for html-pages - conflicts

And now an FAQ for the original symptom. https://github.com/PreTeXtBook/pretext/pull/3101 On 7/31/26

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Naming conventions for html-pages - conflicts

And now an FAQ for the original symptom. https://github.com/PreTeXtBook/pretext/pull/3101 On 7/31/26

Jul 31

Barbara Ericson, … Sean Fitzpatrick4

Jul 30

Is there a way to force the rebuild to use the most current source?

Never mind. I hadn't committed the files that had changed. On Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 7:34:43

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Is there a way to force the rebuild to use the most current source?

Never mind. I hadn't committed the files that had changed. On Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 7:34:43

Jul 30

Charles M, … Oscar Levin7

Jul 29

VS complaining about component in subtitle, but all works well

For spell check, the code spell check extension for vscode is great, and pretext-tools adds keyword

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VS complaining about component in subtitle, but all works well

For spell check, the code spell check extension for vscode is great, and pretext-tools adds keyword

Jul 29

Barbara Ericson

Jul 29

A bit confused on proper placement for numbered="left' on Parsons problems

The documentation says to put the attributes on the <exercise> tag including numbered="

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A bit confused on proper placement for numbered="left' on Parsons problems

The documentation says to put the attributes on the <exercise> tag including numbered="

Jul 29

Sean Fitzpatrick, … Rob Beezer12

Jul 28

Fatal (but not really?) charmap error

Well, at least when I travel with the wrong operating system I manage to uncover some interesting

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Fatal (but not really?) charmap error

Well, at least when I travel with the wrong operating system I manage to uncover some interesting

Jul 28

Daniel Lim, … Oscar Levin6

Jul 27

Pretext Plus Markdown

Thanks Oscar! On Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:30:12 AM UTC-10 oscar...@gmail.com wrote: I've

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Pretext Plus Markdown

Thanks Oscar! On Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:30:12 AM UTC-10 oscar...@gmail.com wrote: I've

Jul 27

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