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WebEQ Trouble Shooting

Part of the reason the current release is version 0.98 is that there are still some bugs in it. If it were just the bugs, it would probably be version 0.99, but just to make it interesting, WebEQ doesn't do a very good job of catching user-made syntax errors either. Hence, version 0.98.

If an equation is not displaying, the first thing to do is to check the Java Console window, which you can select from the Netscape Options menu. If WebEQ has detected a syntax error, it will print a message there.

If there is no error in the Java Console, you should check for

Missing " in a VALUE= parameter
tags without a terminating >
entities without a terminating;
a start tag without a matching end tag. Usually WebEQ will catch this. However, sometimes, this seems to plunge it into an infinite loops which crashes Netscape. If this is happening to you, check for missing end tags.
In certain situations, WebEQ seems to choke on line breaks. Try dividing up the equation differently between parameter lines.
Extra spaces with tag parameters such as <SUP ALIGN =MIDDLE > seem to cause problems in certain situations.

If all of this fails, please report the bug to me, along with the URL of the page it occurs in, and I will do my best.

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Created: Fri Sep 8 11:39:00 1995 --- Last modified: Thu Mar 28 12:44:24 1996