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Section 5 The end of the beginning

There are lots of other things you might want to do. Before I mention them, here is an important warning.

Warning 5.1.

Be careful about special characters! There are really just two, & and <. But they show up in and PreTeXt code a lot, so you have to be careful.

Now, here are some other things I think will be of greatest interest, with links rather than sample code.

  • Lists. Who doesn't want lists?

    • Yes, you can nest them!

    • But you need to be very careful about that.

    • Basically, all lists need to be in <p> tags, but then you also put them in the <li> tags.

    • You can do a lot of custom stuff with them – see the sample article for lots of crazy examples.

  • Tables – here, the sample article has every option conceivable. Note that this online tool allows PreTeXt export.

  • There are special ways to link to video, but for everything else external to your project, use this syntax:

    <url href="http://mathbook.pugetsound.edu/doc/author-guide/html/topic-video.html">video</url>

  • Cross-references are a different kind of very useful link. Use xml:id="my-thing" and then <xref ref="mything" />. Let me show you many examples? Like to Warning 5.1?

Good luck in your future PreTeXting!