Talk:Hardcopy Design

Hints -- technical issue

 In PG there are, for historical reasons,  $showHints  which contains the number of attempts before a hint can be shown.  
 Another flag, $displayHintsQ, is used to indicate whether the "show hints" check box has been checked.

 This is confusing and should be changed in the code, but showHints will have to be changed in a great many places. Even worse
 in some files outside of PG it appears that $showHints  plays the same role $displayHintsQ plays inside of PG. This is not
 a hard change but will require careful checking.