serve-course-lecture

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Start or verify live preview for RLHF Book course lecture slides without breaking relative image assets. Use when serving, opening, checking, or debugging `teach/course/lec*.md` slides.

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Serve Course Lecture

Use this for live preview of teach/course/lec*.md.

Rule

Course lecture images are written as assets/.... The rendered HTML must therefore be generated and served from teach/course/, not teach/, or images will resolve to the wrong directory.

Start Lec5

From the repo root:

uv run --extra teach python -c "from colloquium.serve import serve; serve('teach/course/lec5-chap7.md', port=8081, output_dir='teach/course')"

Open:

http://127.0.0.1:8081/lec5-chap7.html

General Pattern

For teach/course/<lecture>.md, set output_dir='teach/course' and open http://127.0.0.1:<port>/<lecture>.html.

Verification

Before reporting success, verify both the page and at least one image:

uv run --extra teach python -c "import urllib.request as u; urls=['http://127.0.0.1:8081/lec5-chap7.html','http://127.0.0.1:8081/assets/rlvr-system.png']; [print(x, (r := u.urlopen(x, timeout=3)).status, r.getheader('content-type')) for x in urls]"

The image check must return 200 image/....

If The Port Is Already Wrong

If a previous server is running from the wrong output directory, find and stop only that port before restarting:

lsof -ti tcp:8081
kill <pid>