Hi all,
I'm creating the following numerical question in Tex in Moodle 1.9 (without space between $$):
Simplify $ $\frac{4}{4}$ $.
After exporting as a gift format, this is what I get in the file:
Simplify $ $\frac\{4\}\{4\}$ $.
Can anyone explain why the extra backslashes? When imported back, it reads fine. Thanks.
Yes. { and } are special characters in the GIFT syntax, so they need to be escaped.
Thanks for the quick reply. I understand that the gift filter needs these escapes, however, knowing that anything between $$ is a Tex expression, why couldn't the gift filter interpret it literally?
You seem to be assuming that the GIFT import is intelligent.
It actually just parses the input using some regular expressions.
