On 7/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Selon Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > examdesign appears to be the LaTeX class that most closely fits my
> > needs for writing tests. There was some conversation here in 2000
> > about an effort to create a layout file for that package, but I can't
> > find any evidence of a result.
> >
> > Anybody have a working layout file?
>
> I personally use exam.cls which comes along with an exam.layout. It contains
> all you need for most tests and exams. I found it on the lyx wiki, I think.
I'm googling and don't find a file exam.layout. How about posting, or
emailing it either to this list or to me directly pauljohn32 at
gmail.com?
The examdesign package has some great features, and maybe I'll get an
idea of how to make the layout for it if I see exam.layout.
Here's where I am stuck. In examdesign, questions are represented by
a block of elements like this
\begin{question}Here is the question
\choice{a possible answer}
\choice[!]{another possible answer}
\end{question}
The exclaimation mark indicates the correct answer, and the exam
design generates an answer key from it. This looks (to my untrained
eye) exacly like a LaTeX list, except with different words, replacing
"item" with "choice".
In the LyX layout, what I want to do is create a thing that
automatically pops up a space for the question and 5 choices. I have
found a way to create a question environment and a choice environment,
and can manually force in each component to make a multiple guess
question. (Insert a question environment, then put the choice objectes
"inside" its depth. It works. But it makes using LyX substantially
more difficult/tedious than just writing LaTeX in Emacs. So I'm
hoping for something more automatic.
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
