Updating AnswerFormatHelp.pl

[Alex-Jordan]

AnswerFormatHelp.pl is a macro library in the OPL, For Lewis folder, referenced over 17000 by files in the OPL. It has a few issues:

• It doesn't work for problems rendered through iframes in the way that PTX renders problems.
• It has some outdated information about PG syntax.

Should pg take over this file and update it? With consultation/collaboration/approval from @paultpearson ?

[drgrice1]

PG has already taken over this file. It is in the macros/deprecated directory. It has already been updated. The AnswerFormatHelp method just calls helpLink from PGbasicmacros.pl.

[Alex-Jordan]

Ah, OK. Well it seems there is more to be done based on some reporting from today. But if it's been updated like you describe, then probably the issues are all for me to work on in the PTX repository, in pretext-webwork.js. I'll check on that and close this when I confirm.

[drgrice1]

If there is, then it is the helpLink method that needs work. Note that still uses knowlLink, and I don't know of any real way to fix that. You can't use an accordion like we now do for solutions and hints.

[paultpearson]

Please do what you need to do to update this.

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[Alex-Jordan]

For static PTX rendering, I just need to adjust things so that the URL in the output is not a relative path. It should be doable to prepend the WW server's domain.

I haven't had time to look into the following, but when a live problem is in an iframe in a PTX project, and the user clicks the help link, the iframe reloads in a strange way, loading the ambient page in the iframe. It could be a bug in PTX's pretext-webwork.js that I just need to make time to investigate.