Embedding JavaScript (like CircuitJS)

[Stephan Boltzmann]

Hello everybody out there using PreTeXt,

ChemDoodle Web Compontents (https://web.chemdoodle.com/) is a JavaScript library implementing an interactive editor for chemical structures.

Is there a way to use it (or generally speaking a JavaScript library) in PreTeXt (HTML output)?

PreTeXt already supports CircuitJS interactives, which are great for interactive electronic schematics.

It would be great to have a similar way to embed ChemDoodle Web Components in PreTeXt!

Kind regards

Stephan

[Andrew Scholer]

Stephan - 

It is possible to add arbitrary HTML/JS to an iframe that becomes an "interactive". There are a few overlapping version of the <interactive> element that allow for this. 

The most general purpose one would be an <interactive> with @iframe that points to an html file in your external directory that loads the right JS/CSS libraries and then triggers whatever setup you want.

https://pretextbook.org/examples/sample-article/html/section-interactive-authored.html#interactive-iframes-local
https://github.com/PreTeXtBook/pretext/blob/1c97959297d51749717f9b34ce5da131c960b92d/examples/sample-article/sample-article.xml#L9130

An <interactive> with @platform="javascript" works in a similar way, but can handle loading the JS/CSS libraries into the iframe automatically so that you can just provide the logic for loading your particular content.

https://pretextbook.org/examples/sample-article/html/section-interactive-authored.html#svg-interactives
https://github.com/PreTeXtBook/pretext/blob/1c97959297d51749717f9b34ce5da131c960b92d/examples/sample-article/sample-article.xml#L8585

Depending on your personal authoring methods and what you are authoring, you will likely find one or the other of those two methods works better for you.

Andrew Scholer

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[Rob Beezer]

Dear Stephan,

Are you writing a chemistry textbook?

Rob

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