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The PreTeXt Guide

Robert A. Beezer, David Farmer, Alex Jordan, Mitchel T. Keller

Section 5.14 Building Output in CoCalc

CoCalc cocalc.com 11  has all the tools you need to author with PreTeXt. You will need an upgrade from a subscription to allow Internet connectivity, but at a minimum a colleague with a paid plan can spare you one, they are plentiful and meant to be shared.
  • Text editor: reasonably good, partially XML syntax-aware. It is also now possible to start a virtual VS Code session and use their powerful text editing capabilities.
  • git: installed (so you can clone/pull PreTeXt).
  • jing: installed, so you can do RELAX-NG validation.
  • : installed with many additional packages.
  • Python: installed, necessary for pretext script.
  • pretext: the CLI should be installed by default, although the version might lag. Assuming you have a paid subscription, you should be able to upgrade with pip install --upgrade pretext
  • PDF viewer: handed off to your browser.
  • HTML viewer: get a context menu on the cloud icon in the file view, and open in a new tab or new window.
  • pretext view web will allow you to view output through a python server.
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