On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:53 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've created module quizzes for my Troubleshooting Course. I'd like to create
> a document containing the quiz questions, answers and a disertation on why
> the correct answer is correct. This document would be given to course
> instructors.
>
> As I envision it, this would be a two column affair, with the left column
> being the question, the multiple choices, and the correct answer. The right
> column would have a disertation on why the correct answer is correct and
> possibly why the wrong answers are wrong.
>
> This would be trivial to do on a web page, but for professional level work
> like this I'd prefer it be well typeset with LyX/LaTeX, and converted to PDF.
>
> It would not be enough to be a 2 column book, because the disertation must be
> to the right of the question, always. If one is longer than the other, the
> shorter one would be vertically spaced to keep disertations together with
> their questions, choices and answers. I'd also like some sort of lines or
> shading to separate question/disertation pairs.
>
> I spoze the easiest way to do it would be a longtable, but tables in LyX are
> just soooo ugly, I'm hoping there's a better way.
Steve,
It has been a while since I used multicols for things sort of like this,
but I think it has options for forcing a change from one column to the
other, keeping blocks aligned at the top. My immediate reaction to what
you propose would be along the lines of:
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Here is the question in paragraph form, going on forever ad nauseum just
so I can get two lines in this email.
(turn on multicols, 2 col.)
a. blah answer Here's why your chosen
b. yucky answer answers stink. It's
c. haha caught you answer because I say so, and
d. the perfect answer I know it all. My
e. the catch-all-other-losers answer answer is the only one
(force change to 2nd column option) worth looking at, and
your pitiful efforts
are in vain! HAHA!
(turn off multicols)
Next wonderfully idiotic question in regular paragraph form (perhaps
enumerated, though I forget how to get multicols to work with that).
Etc., etc.
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Don't know if I'm on the right track or not, but HTH.
Kenward
--
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I
have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than
in the church. --Ferdinand Magellan
