At 12:10 PM 12/27/2002 -0800, you wrote:

The tricky part is an easy way to associate dates (either single or a range, like a week) with general course/lecture content, and readings and assignments, and to lay it out clearly.

My current syllabii are structured like:

Week 5 (January 5-7) General week topic.

Exam: January 7

Readings: pp 100-120, textbook

if examn date would be fixed relative to the week, it would be no problem, since you could use the date macros combined with a forces starting point; however, in your case you'll probably need something structured: <date spec> <content spec> <date spec> <content spec> with the content in separate files. The challenge here is to cook up a date spec that is flexible enough: relative dates and so. Implementing it is trivial, so if you and your collegues (or others on this list) cook up the requirements ... it can be a module ps. next year i will move some code that we use for fill-in docs (question/answers) into a module; think of hiding answers and so Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

At 01:32 PM 12/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:38:11 +0100, "Hans Hagen" said:

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The challenge here is to cook up a date spec that is flexible enough: relative dates and so. Implementing it is trivial, so if you and your collegues (or others on this list) cook up the requirements ... it can be a module

Great, but can you give me/us a little more info on exactly what you need here?

a more detailed wish list examples (are your syllabi on line?) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------