Derivatives of arcsin and arctan?

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I was trouble getting the correct answers to this question, which defines functions using asin and atan and the derivative using the <derivative>tag, so I displayed what the answer is expecting, and well, I don’t want students entering that! I tried changing asin and atan in the function definitions to arcsin and arctan, and bingo, the derivatives are now correct.

It’s weird though, because Doenet knows that asin means arcsin in the second part of the numerator. I imagine this means I’ll be editing every homework problem in this section, unless you can implement a super speedy fix. But it would be nice not to have to edit much beyond this section if asin and atan are supposed to be allowed. Are they?

Chrissy

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DoenetML version 0.7.8 released
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I just published a dev release that makes sure both formats are recognized for the derivative. Try adding version="dev" in PreTeXt or selecting version 0.7dev on beta.doenet.org.

If this works, then specifying dev won’t be necessary when we make our next official release later in the week.

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Thank you!