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ANS.app is the satisfying grading platform. But sometimestypesetting math on ANS is not very satisfying. ANS uses its own flavour of markupwhich for typesettingLaTeX uses double dollarsigns ($$) for inline equations and triple dollar signs ($$$) for displayequations. ANS has the extra quirk of not supporting line-breaks in LaTeXexpressions.

This is quite unusual, and I have yet to find other editors providing this sameflavour of markup. The closest, which happens to be the most widely used, isPandoc-flavouredmarkdown, which uses one lessdollar sign across the board and allows for, as expected, line-breaks in LaTeXexpressions.

More importantly, this flavour is supported by most modern editors and tools.The idea with bLANS is therefore to allow users to write their answers in theireditor of choice, and then convert these to ANS-flavour markup via bLANS. Thisallows users to work more safely (don't need to rely on ANS not crashing) andmore comfortably (can use more advanced editors).

Simply paste your normal LaTeX markup (pandoc markdown) in the top text area andpress 'Convert'. Your input will appear converted to ANS LaTeX markup in thebottom text area. You can then either manually highlight and copy the result orpress the 'Copy to Clipboard' button.

This project is built usingGatsbyJS andTailwindCSS, with hosting provided byGitHub Pages.

To get set up:

1. Fork this repository
2. Clone your fork
3. InstallNodeJS andNPM. Irecommend usingNVM to take care of that
4. cd to the cloned repo
5. Runnpm install to install the necessary packages
6. Runnpm run develop to run a development version of the site on your localmachine

Pull requestsare welcome.

For the moment the repo is very basic.

If something is not working or you would like an extra feature, please submit anew issue in theGitHub issues page