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* Ordered lists with alphabetic tags?
@ 2010-02-15  8:07 Simon Guest
  2010-02-15 13:51 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Simon Guest @ 2010-02-15  8:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Org Mode

Hi,

I'd like to produce multi-choice questions using Org mode, exporting
via Latex and Beamer mode to PDF.  My choices need to be alphabetic: A
B C, etc, since I am using a set of classroom clickers (aka voting
buttons) for students to select answers, which have buttons labelled A
to H.

So far, I found no way to change numeric to alphabetic in lists, and
the best I can come up with is

** What's your favourite subject?
+ A Maths
+ B Science
+ C English

etc.

I note that numeric lists are formatted really nicely on slides.  Is
there a way of achieving similar with alphabetic?  Would this be a
useful enhancement?

cheers,
Simon

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* Re: Ordered lists with alphabetic tags?
  2010-02-15  8:07 Ordered lists with alphabetic tags? Simon Guest
@ 2010-02-15 13:51 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
  2010-02-18  5:34   ` Simon Guest
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Darlan Cavalcante Moreira @ 2010-02-15 13:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Simon Guest; +Cc: Org Mode


Maybe there is a better solution, but you can achieve this with

** What's your favourite subject?
#+LaTeX: \renewcommand{\theenumi}{\Alph{enumi}}
1. Math
2. Science
3. English
#+LaTeX: \renewcommand{\theenumi}{\arabic{enumi}}

The second #+Latex is just to go back to the default behaviour. Also, use
"\alph" if you want lowercase and "\Alph" if you want uppercase.

- Darlan

At Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:07:48 +1300,
Simon Guest <simon.guest@tesujimath.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to produce multi-choice questions using Org mode, exporting
> via Latex and Beamer mode to PDF.  My choices need to be alphabetic: A
> B C, etc, since I am using a set of classroom clickers (aka voting
> buttons) for students to select answers, which have buttons labelled A
> to H.
> 
> So far, I found no way to change numeric to alphabetic in lists, and
> the best I can come up with is
> 
> ** What's your favourite subject?
> + A Maths
> + B Science
> + C English
> 
> etc.
> 
> I note that numeric lists are formatted really nicely on slides.  Is
> there a way of achieving similar with alphabetic?  Would this be a
> useful enhancement?
> 
> cheers,
> Simon
> 
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* Re: Ordered lists with alphabetic tags?
  2010-02-15 13:51 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
@ 2010-02-18  5:34   ` Simon Guest
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Simon Guest @ 2010-02-18  5:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Darlan Cavalcante Moreira; +Cc: Org Mode

At Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:51:49 +0100,
Darlan Cavalcante Moreira wrote:
> 
> 
> Maybe there is a better solution, but you can achieve this with
> 
> ** What's your favourite subject?
> #+LaTeX: \renewcommand{\theenumi}{\Alph{enumi}}
> 1. Math
> 2. Science
> 3. English
> #+LaTeX: \renewcommand{\theenumi}{\arabic{enumi}}
> 
> The second #+Latex is just to go back to the default behaviour. Also, use
> "\alph" if you want lowercase and "\Alph" if you want uppercase.
 
Hi Darlan,

Thanks for that, it works a treat.

cheers,
Simon

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