Re: syllabus module

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:10 PM 12/27/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>The tricky part is an easy way to associate dates (either single or a
>range, like a week) with general course/lecture content, and readings and
>assignments, and to lay it out clearly.
>
>My current syllabii are structured like:
>
>Week 5 (January 5-7)  General week topic.
>
>Exam: January 7
>
>Readings:  pp 100-120, textbook

if examn date would be fixed relative to the week, it would be no problem, 
since you could use the date macros combined with a forces starting point; 
however, in your case you'll probably need something structured:

<date spec>
<content spec>

<date spec>
<content spec>

with the content in separate files.

The challenge here is to cook up a date spec that is flexible enough: 
relative dates and so. Implementing it is trivial, so if you and your 
collegues (or others on this list) cook up the requirements ... it can be a 
module

ps. next year i will move some code that we use for fill-in docs 
(question/answers) into a module; think of hiding answers and so

Hans
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