RunestoneInteractive / RunestoneInteractive/rs
Runestone Issue: MathJax parsing in assignment builder preview
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 69
- Forks
- 117
- Avg merge
- 6d 4h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 24
Description
What Page were you on
https://runestone.academy/assignment/instructor/builder/291467/exercises
Describe the bug
In the assignment builder, it appears that previewing an exercise reads $ as mathjax delimiters, where this particular exercise uses them for money twice, which happens to close them. It works fine in the book itself, this issue only presents in the preview.
A Screenshot is worth a thousand words
Javascript Errors
No javascript errors, but here is the output for completeness:
before get hist bookfuncs.js:78:23
res
Object { _component_ready_resolve_fn: (), component_ready_promise: Promise { "fulfilled" }, optional: false, sid: undefined, graderactive: false, showfeedback: true, assessmentTaken: true, timedWrapper: null, is_toggle: undefined, is_select: undefined, … }
bookfuncs.js:78:23
making a new scrubber bookfuncs.js:78:23
Fake change event, skipping the log bookfuncs.js:78:23
What is your username
hicksa@wfu.edu
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in the assignment builder preview at the provided page with an exercise containing dollar signs, then trace how preview content is rendered compared with the book view. Confirm the fix by ensuring literal currency remains literal in the preview while mathematical delimiters continue to render correctly.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 65/100