From: Robert Klein <kleinrob@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with new exporter
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:58:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51DD92AF.8020809@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28c5d705dc41bc66d5a17e23d5dc9324@johnrakestraw.com>
Hi John,
would you mind posting an example of the org file, too? It would be
easier for me to wrap my thoughts about this.. (The gurus probably
don't it...)
Thanks a lot
Robert
On 07/10/2013 06:32 PM, John Rakestraw wrote:
> Greetings, list --
>
> I've been using Philip Hirschhorn's exam documentclass
> (http://www-math.mit.edu/~psh/#ExamCls) for several years to produce my
> exams. I've been writing the exams in org-mode and using the exporter to
> produce the pdf.
>
> I've recently moved to org 8.0. (I like it!) I've successfully converted
> all of my other export class definitions, but I can't figure out how to
> define the exam class so that I can export my exams. I've pasted below
> the class definition that worked with the previous exporter (I know it's
> clumsy, but it worked) and also a sample version of what I need in the
> tex file.
>
> (I know I could just write the tex file directly, but it's nice to have
> all of the course materials included in human-readable form in the
> course org file.)
>
> My problem is that I can't get the exporter to produce chunks like this:
>
> \begin{questions}
> \question
> A paragraph describing how the students should answer the following
> questions.
> \begin{parts}
> \part
> A multi-line question
> \part
> Another multi-line question
> \end{parts}
> \end{questions}
>
> Thanks for whatever advice anyone can offer.
>
> --John
>
>
> Old template:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (setq org-export-latex-classes (cons '("exam"
> ### I know that in the new exporter I need to change this variable to
> "org-latex-classes" ###
> "% BEGIN exam Defaults
> [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]
> [PACKAGES]
> \\documentclass[12pt]{exam}
> \\usepackage{palatino}
> \\extrawidth{.5in}
> \\extraheadheight{-.75in}
> \\extrafootheight[-3in]{-.75in}
> \\pagestyle{headandfoot}
> \\NoKey
> \\NumberOfVersions{1}
> \\renewcommand\\thequestion{\\Roman{question}}
> \\renewcommand\\thepartno{\\arabic{partno}}
> \\renewcommand\\partlabel{\\thepartno.}
>
>
> % END exam Defaults
>
> "
> ("\\begin{questions}" "\\end{questions}"
> "\\begin{questions}" "\\end{questions}")
> ("\\question" . "\\question*")
> ("\\begin{parts}" "\\end{parts}" "\\begin{parts}"
> "\\end{parts}")
> ("\\part" . "\\part*"))
>
> org-export-latex-classes))
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> An example of what I need the exporter to produce:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> \documentclass[letterpaper]{exam}
> \extrawidth{.5in}
> \extraheadheight[.3in]{-.75in}
> \extrafootheight{-.25in}
> \raggedright
> \renewcommand\thequestion{\Roman{question}}
> \renewcommand\thepartno{\arabic{partno}}
> \renewcommand\partlabel{\thepartno.}
> \firstpageheader{Name: \enspace\makebox[3in]{\hrulefill}\\Exam
> 1\\}{}{Introductory Class \\May 7, 2013\\}
> \begin{document}
>
> \begin{coverpages}
> text describing how the exam should be printed and prepared for
> distribution.
> \end{coverpages}
>
>
>
> \begin{questions}
> \question
> A paragraph here describes this section and tells students how many
> terms to
> identify.
> \begin{parts}
> \part
> term 1
> \vspace*{\fill}
> \part
> term 2
> \vspace*{\fill}
> \part
> term 3
> \vspace*{\fill}
> \part
> term 4
> \vspace*{\fill}
> \part
> term 5
> \vspace*{\fill}
> \part
> term 6
> \vspace*{\fill}
> \part
> term 7
> \vspace*{\fill}
> \part
> term 7
> \vspace*{\fill}
> \part
> term 8
> \end{parts}
> \end{questions}
> \newpage
> \fillwithdottedlines{\fill}
> \newpage
> \begin{questions}
> \question
> Short Answer. A paragraph describing how I want students to respond to the
> following questions. I want to leave vertical space filled with dotted
> lines
> between the questions, and I want two questions on each page.
> \begin{parts}
> \part
> This is the first question. It will be several lines long, so I'm
> writing enough
> filler here to add at least a second line.
> \fillwithdottedlines{\fill}
> \part
> This is the second question. It will also be several lines long, so I need
> filler enough to get to the second line for this example.
> \fillwithdottedlines{\fill}
>
> \newpage
> \fillwithdottedlines{\fill}
> \newpage
> \part
> This is the 3d question.
> \fillwithdottedlines{\fill}
> \end{parts}
> \end{questions}
> \newpage
> \fillwithdottedlines{\fill}
> \newpage
> \begin{questions}
> \question
> Essay Question. This is a section of essay questions. Students will
> answer only
> one of these questions, so I don't need to leave space between the two
> questions.
> \begin{parts}
> \part
> The first of the essay questions goes here. It will be several lines
> long, so I
> want enough text in the example to provide a line break.
> \part
> The second essay question. It is also several lines long, so I'll add some
> rambling text here for the second line.
> \end{parts}
> \end{questions}
> \fillwithdottedlines{\fill}
> \newpage
> \fillwithdottedlines{\fill}
> \end{document}
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-10 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-10 16:32 Help with new exporter John Rakestraw
2013-07-10 16:58 ` Robert Klein [this message]
2013-07-10 17:27 ` John Rakestraw
2013-07-10 19:37 ` Robert Klein
2013-07-10 20:46 ` John Rakestraw
2013-07-10 21:04 ` John Rakestraw
2013-07-11 4:04 ` Charles Berry
2013-07-11 5:22 ` Robert Klein
2013-07-11 15:15 ` John Rakestraw
2013-07-11 23:05 ` John Rakestraw
2013-07-12 3:00 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-07-10 19:56 ` Rasmus
[not found] <51DFEC7B.7050504@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
2013-07-12 11:47 ` Robert Klein
2013-07-12 13:41 ` Nick Dokos
2013-07-12 14:12 ` Rasmus
2013-07-12 14:59 ` Nick Dokos
2013-07-12 15:05 ` John Rakestraw
2013-07-12 15:27 ` Rasmus
2013-07-12 15:47 ` John Rakestraw
2013-07-12 15:28 ` Nick Dokos
2013-07-12 15:49 ` John Rakestraw
2013-07-12 16:20 ` Nick Dokos
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