This is a guess, but see if it changes anything if you put a \newline or a \\
or a ~\\ either before or after the \end{question} in \myquestion.
SteveT
On Monday 30 July 2007 15:02, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I'm trying to make a lyx layout file to help with making multiple
> choice exams with the examdesign LaTeX class. This class has many
> great features, including automatic randomization of questions to
> create separate forms as well as automatic key generation for grading.
>
> The question environment is used with LaTeX like this
>
> \begin{question}
> Here is a question
> \choice{first}
> \choice{second}
> \end{question}.
>
>
> When processed, it should create output that assigns a number and
> letters like this
>
> 1. Here is a question
> (a) first
> (b) second
>
> I am attaching a layout file and a test lyx file and hope you can
> advise me. The pdf file result is posted online here, so you can see
> I have some success.
>
> http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex/examdes-ex1.pdf
>
> I've used LyX Enumerate components and when properly nested, the
> questions and answers do "look right" in LyX. But if it looks right
> in LyX, it doesn't print out through LaTeX.
>
> Here is what is wrong. The "question" environment does not know how
> to end. I put in the choices as nested inside the question, and that
> "looks right" inside lyx because the enumeration is correct. After I
> put in the last choice in LyX and go up one level, I insert a new
> question, but the output shows the new question "inside" the previous
> one. The only workaround I find is to put in a separator paragraph of
> another style. That does force LyX to put in \end{question}, but then
> Lyx's enumeration of the questions is broken.
>
>
> I'm not an expert, but it appears to me there is something weird in
> the way LyX takes new environments. newcommand works as expected, but
> environments that have custome Preamble simply don't compile. Here's
> an example. "myquestion" should be the exact same thing as the
> "question" environment. Note the Preamble makes it do the same thing.
>
> Style Question
> LatexType Environment
> LatexName myquestion
> NextNoIndent 1
> Preamble
> \newenvironment{myquestion}{
> \begin{question}}
> {\end{question}}
> EndPreamble
> End
>
> I export to LaTeX from lyx and study the result, it appears it should
> compile, but running latex fails. It says there is a runaway.
>
> Is there a LaTeX "preprocessor" like a C preprocessor? I found myself
> wishing I could review the first phase of the latex document
> processing. Is there a phase in the latex processor which takes all of
> the newenvironments and inserts them into the document itself, so you
> can read what is going wrong? I can't see much when the LaTeX
> document simply has a preamble like
>
> \newenvironment{myquestion}{
> \begin{question}}
> {\end{question}
> }
>
> and then inside the document it has
>
> \begin{myquestion}
>
> \end{myquestion}
>
> I can't see why the latex program complaining.
>
> I'm using Fedora Linux 7 with the tetex distribution.
