Has anyone come up with a good syllabus module for ConTeXt?
Bruce
At 08:36 AM 12/27/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Has anyone come up with a good syllabus module for ConTeXt?
What should such a module provide?
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On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:12:06 +0100, "Hans Hagen" pragma@wxs.nl said:
At 08:36 AM 12/27/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Has anyone come up with a good syllabus module for ConTeXt?
What should such a module provide?
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
13. subtopic 14. another subtopic
I'm not sure this is the best way to structure the info (it's common to use tables), but I'm sure you can get the idea. When I change the syllabus for subsequent terms, it ought to be trivial to just change the dates...
I'm thinking I'd want to code in XML, and create a PDF file with ConTeXt, and an HTML version.
Bruce
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
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On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:38:11 +0100, "Hans Hagen" pragma@wxs.nl said:
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?
Bruce
At 01:32 PM 12/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:38:11 +0100, "Hans Hagen" pragma@wxs.nl said:
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
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