Build target for skeletal notes

[Federico Galetto]

Hello! After playing around with PreTeXt for a couple of weeks, I am thinking of using it to rewrite notes for one of my courses. Currently, my notes are one giant skeletal worksheet that I can print/distribute as a single PDF or break up into separate files for different chapters.

I looked at the example of skeletal worksheet in the documentation and tried fitting it to my notes. Each worksheet comes with its little print icon to produce a printout, so I could:

- make a worksheet for each section, but that means losing the convenience of printing out a single PDF file and having instead to print out each worksheet individually;

- or make a worksheet for each chapter, but then I lose the ability to further subdivide into sections, since worksheets cannot be further divided with anything other than paragraphs.

Coming from a LaTeX to PDF mindset, here is what comes to my mind. It would be great if there was a build target to create a print version without solutions. Is this an option? Essentially, this would create a PDF via LaTeX in the same way as the default print target, but replace each solution block with empty space (preferably of user-definable length). Of course, I could also build a LaTeX file using the default latex target and edit it manually to convert solution blocks to empty space, but I would have to do that every time I need to make an edit.

I hope this makes sense, and maybe other people can share if this is doable or if they have a different way to achieve this in PreTeXt. Thank you in advance!

[Mitch Keller]

Hi Frederico,

You’re on the right track with creating a PDF that has all of your worksheets, and this is all readily supported. You will want a separate publication file for your PDF build target, and in there you can adjust the visibility of the solutions. In the publication file, you are looking for exercise-worksheet and need to change solution="yes" to solution=“no". You control the empty space by putting a workspace attribute on each exercise (or activity or task or whatever you need space after).

If you get stuck, definitely check out a drop-in session for some live help: https://mathtech.org/events/

Mitch

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[Federico Galetto]

Thank you, Mitch! This is great!

I will give it a try, and follow up here or during a drop-in session if I need help.

Cheers,

Fred

[Federico Galetto]

Following Mitch's directions, I am expanding on the steps here, in case I need to look them up in the future. Note that I started from a basic book project.

1. I created a copy of the publication.ptx file in the publication folder. I called it skeleton.ptx but the name does not matter as long as you are consistent in later steps.
2. In the common tag of the skeleton.ptx file, I uncommented the line with the exercise-worksheet tag. I set hint="no" and solution="no" to match my preferences.
3. In the latex tag, I uncommented the the line with the <worksheet formatted="yes"/> tag. I do not remember why but I think I needed this for some reason.
4. In the project.ptx file in the main project folder, I went to the targets tag and added: <target name="skeleton" format="pdf" source="main.ptx" publication="skeleton.ptx" output-dir="print" output-filename="mybook.pdf" latex-engine="pdflatex" deploy-dir="pdf"/>. Attributes can be customized as needed.

After saving all files, I got a new build target called skeleton and choosing that creates a pdf with exercise solutions replaced by empty space.