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jgomezdans / geog_docker

Docker image for Geospatial Python teaching
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latex #33

Closed profLewis closed 4 years ago

profLewis commented 4 years ago

The students have to submit c/w in pdf ... so its pretty pointless making a smaller repo without latex ... Ive had tout it back in in my one

RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y texlive-xetex

Lewis

jgomezdans commented 4 years ago

Not necessarily... They can print using the browser to PDF directly (most of them did that before), or even download the the markdown version of the document and upload it to some online Word conversion services (they could also run pandoc locally and convert to Word), download a latex version and upload it to overleaf...

On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 11:48, Professor Philip Lewis < notifications@github.com> wrote:

The students have to submit c/w in pdf ... so its pretty pointless making a smaller repo without latex ... Ive had tout it back in in my one

RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y texlive-xetex

Lewis

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profLewis commented 4 years ago

That causes all sorts of problems every year. The browser printing produces different results from one browser/machine type to another. Every year we have students with badly formatted submissions or even late submissions, simply because they couldn't get a pdf printed. I want to avoid that. If you wont put latex in the core, then I'll just leave it in my course.

profLewis commented 4 years ago

Ive changed it now so it all goes back into ucleo/geog0111

jgomezdans commented 4 years ago

I've added it to the base image, creating images now, but you'll need to wait a bit for this to percolate down (I need to test, and then issue a release)