Sum of counters at the beginning of file

Asked Jan 25 '14 at 09:40

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New to this forum, but long time TeX and LaTeX user. I've had this problem recently, for which I couldn't find a solution:

I'd like to print out the total possible score at a test at the top of the test. This is of course the total sum of scores of the different questions. I've thus thought of creating a counter

\newcounter{total}
\setcounter{total}{0}

at the beginning of the file, and at each question, I've used the command

\addtocounter{total}{ <the score at this question> }

But then, of course, the total score is effectively computed at the end of the document. How can I manage to print this score at the top of the document? Perhaps with a temporary external file, but I haven't looked into this...

All help is greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot in advance!

edited Jan 25 '14 at 09:48

karlkoeller

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asked Jan 25 '14 at 09:40

Gabriel

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Sounds like http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34789/how-to-display-the-final-value-of-a-counter-at-the-beginning-of-a-document?rq=1 to me – Joseph Wright Jan 25 '14 at 09:43
Are you preparing some kind of exam sheet? – Thorsten Donig Jan 25 '14 at 09:47
@JosephWright: thank you for the link, I'm going to look into it. – Gabriel Jan 25 '14 at 09:48
@ThorstenDonig: yes, I am. Is there any "automated" package for this that you know of? – Gabriel Jan 25 '14 at 09:48
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BTW: Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at our starter guide to familiarize yourself further with our format. – karlkoeller Jan 25 '14 at 09:49
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I suggest to take a look either at the »exam« class or at packages like »exsheets« or »probsoln«. – Thorsten Donig Jan 25 '14 at 09:50
@karlkoeller: thank you for the welcoming words! I'll take a look at the starter guide! – Gabriel Jan 25 '14 at 09:50

Sum of counters at the beginning of file

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