[WWdevel] Fwd: Hard copy generation

[Sam H. <sh...@ma...>]

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> From: Arnold Pizer <ap...@ma...>
> Date: January 11, 2006 21:12:05 EST
> To: sh...@ma...
> Cc: ap...@ma..., ga...@ma...
> Subject: Hard copy generation
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> I just went through all the fall courses generating hard copies of  
> all the assignments and this process went MUCH BETTER than in the  
> past.  The changes you made to the error reporting are excellent.   
> E.g in one course there were two problems that were bad (maybe  
> because a change to the new parser) and hardcopy pointed out the  
> bad problems, gave a link to edit them, and went on generating the  
> output with a warning that the bad problems were skipped.  In  
> another case, when there was a TeX error, it also did well.
>
> By the way, the error was in the line
> ANS fun_cmp("t^2+at+b",var=>'t',params=>['a','b'])   ;
>
> which I changed to
>
> ANS fun_cmp("t^2+a t+b",var=>'t',params=>['a','b'])   ;
>
> In this case "at" was not recognized.  Maybe the old parser handled  
> something like that or maybe Rick (the course was MTH 163) just  
> ignored this error.
>
> Arnie