Nothing works

[Katherine Yoshiwara]

In fact, the sidebyside doesn't work in any configuration.  Neither does the leave space command.

[Rob Beezer]

Dear Kathy,

Use the "View Source" knowls here to find code you can try out.

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

Many things do work.

Rob

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[Geoffrey Cox]

Rob,

The source on that page doesn't appear to be rendering properly (at least not from my phone).

Geoff

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[Rob Beezer]

Thanks, Geoff! Some of them are working sort of, for me on fone. But it definitely needs some help.

Rob

[Katherine Yoshiwara]

Thanks, Rob.  That source code was all tixzi for the figures, but I'll hunt for other View Source buttons.

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[BRUCE YOSHIWARA]

Hi Rob,

I tried copying Dave Rosoff's geometric-prelude worksheet from the sample-article.xml file. I had to remove a few things from tikz code before I could get anything to build, but I did succeed in getting reasonable output.

I tried changing an instance of  workspace="1in" to  workspace="4in" and could detect no change in the output, not on the webpage, nor on either print preview. (I'm using a Firefox browser on a windows machine.) Also, the worksheet did not have a page break where Dave had inserted <page>. The entire worksheet  appears on two pages.

Bruce

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[Rob Beezer]

Thanks, Bruce, for giving this a go. I believe there is some dynamic sizing that happens, so maybe try adjusting several @workspace in large and opposite directions? Others can say more, I don't think I have ever made a worksheet.

Rosoff's is likely pretty old, but should have seen some updates. Later examples might be Oscar's work during his more recent push to improve this.

Apologies for View Source being busted.

Rob

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[Oscar Levin]

If you wrap content in <page> elements, then the print preview will do its best to fit what you have on a single page, eating up workspace as needed.  If you drop the page elements, then pagebreaks will be created to *add* workspace as equitably as possible.

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[BRUCE YOSHIWARA]

Thanks Oscar, that gives me a better idea of what to try. 

But still, in Dave's worksheet-geometric-prelude-pages worksheet, his first exercise is wrapped in <page>, yet it appears on the same page as the introduction. I expected the <page> to cause a page break.

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[Rob Beezer]

Introduction is a problem child, at home and at school. Everywhere

I think it gets sucked in to the first #page. It should probably be banned. Just write some stuff wherever you want it. Use a #paragraphs if you want a bit (a little bit) of organization.

Rob

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[Oscar Levin]

Right, everything before the first page is put on the first page.  There is no way to mix page and no page sections, except for this.  A remnant of when we thought introduction was how you could start a worksheet.

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