On 4/02/2013 9:36 a.m., Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Jacob Bishop <[email protected]> wrote:
This has been discussed on the list before. The best answer I have seen (in
my humble opinion) is to use branches. This (quizzes/mult. choice questions)
My crack at multiple-choice questions in LyX (not sure if it was an
adaptation of some other document on-line) is attached. It uses the
article class, customizable lists module and branches. Feel free to
re-use it.
I am looking forward though to some usable LyX layout to 'exam' class
or similar. Most of all I'd like to be able to generate 2-3 versions
of the same multiple-choice exam with randomized questions and
answers. Does anyone know how to do this?
Regards,
Liviu
Riding my particular hobby horses, generating a randomized selection
looks like a candidate for a python script after the fashion envisaged
in the pLyX system (http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Examples).
Alternatively, there are random number macros and if-then tests in the
LaTeX fp package (especially fp-basic.sty, fp-random.sty), although the
documentation is minimal. These macros underlie similar macros, with
good documentation, in the spreadtab package.
(http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Modules points to a LyX module for using
spreadtab with LyX.)
Either method (I suspect you had thought of them already, and neither
appealed) would involve quite a bit of initial work, although once done,
would be easily adapted from one multiple-choice questionaire to another.
Andrew
