CTAN update: pmdb

[CTAN Announcements]

Donald P. Story submitted an update to the

                pmdb

package.

Version number: 2021-06-07
License type: lppl1.2

Summary description: Create a DB (PDF) document for selecting content for inclusion in another documents

Announcement text:
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The pmdb Package
Author: D. P. Story
Dated: 2021-06-07

This "poor man's database" (pmdb) package promotes a workflow for
building exams, homework, and other content. The package supports the
creation of a PDF document, which is a database of problems (or
content) to be included in a target document. The package inserts
checkboxes into the margins of the DB document; the instructor can
select which which of the problems are to be included in the target
document by checking one ore more of the checkboxes. By clicking the
special \displayChoices control, the selected content is copied into
the AR/AA console window in the form of \input statements
(\input{prob1.tex}, eg), which is then be copied and pasted into the
target document. By pressing Ctrl+Click while hovering over a checkbox,
the associated content is loaded into the default application, possibly
a LaTeX editor. For the Ctrl+Click feature to work, the file
aeb-reader.js needs to be installed. As the filename suggests, this
file will work for Adobe Acrobat Reader (DC), as well as for the
magnificent Adobe Acrobat itself. 

What's New (2021-06-07) New command \editSourceOn, which inserts a
pushbutton in the margin; pressing the button loads the source file in
the default editor. Expanding \useEditLnk replaces the marginal
pushbutton with a link annotation. A new input mode \InputProbs, allows
inputting problems for a eqexam document.

Enjoy!

dps

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pmdb

More information is at
   https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pmdb


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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Manfred Lotz


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