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is about the tasks package.

The rea­son for the cre­ation of the tasks en­vi­ron­ment was an un­writ­ten agree­ment in Ger­man maths text­books (exspe­cially (ju­nior) high school text­books) to or­ga­nize ex­er­cises in columns count­ing hor­i­zon­tally rather than ver­ti­cally. This is what the tasks pack­age helps to achieve.

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Equally split the aligned items in tasks package

Problem I am now updating my resume and I found tasks package is a good choice to list my research interests in the same line (which could save a lot of space). Even though I basically got what I want, it seems that three items I list did not have…
Mr.Robot
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Adding a star in the tasks package

I am using the tasks package to create a list of maths problems in a textbook. Usually, these textbooks use a star or asterisk symbol to point out questions which are a bit more challenging than the rest; like this: How can I go about this? Here's…
Luke Collins
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Unwanted vertical whitespace after 'tasks' environments

I'm using the tasks package to build a set of math tests. Some of the problems need to be in one column, and some of them need to be in multiple columns, so I'm using separate tasks environments. However, every time I end one tasks environment and…
Joseph Montanaro
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\tasks \alphalph

I need to give a huge list of matrices to diagonalise. I read this answer, but I can't figure how to make it work. Here is my code, in fact, I have many more matrices. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{blindtext} \usepackage{tasks}…
JCBR
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tasks package: items are in two line with 4 columns and 4 items

I write some choice questions into beamer frame, after some research, here is my code: \documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer} \usetheme{Berkeley} \usepackage{tasks,CJK} \begin{document} \begin{CJK*}{utf8}{bsmi} \begin{frame} \transwipe 1.Which one…
Page David
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Can tasks be used to make a list with \itemindent = \labelwidth + \labelsep

My question will use terms from the diagram below. Using the tasks environment from the tasks package, is it possible to make lists where \itemindent = \labelwidth + \labelsep? The objective is to have lines in "Item 1" beyond the first line have…
alex.jordan
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Configuring the tasks package

The tasks package forms a list like this * a * b * c * d * e * f How to configure the package to display such a list * a * d * b * e * c * f ? Also need to have line alignment as tasks does, multicols does not do this
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Task align style

Original .: And I want to do like this. how can I do it? \documentclass[a5paper]{article} \usepackage[margin=1.5cm]{geometry} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{tasks} \newlength{\taskindent} % \settowidth{\taskindent}{\text{m)}} \settasks{ …
cufcuf
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Line spacing problem and Multiple choice option editing

Why is red vertical alignment not regular? I want to show choices in capital bold letter and i want to horizontal align choices. Help me…
suarez
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Issue with recent version of tasks and numbering

I recently updated my Miktex and now the package tasks is not behaving how it used to. Using \task[] would provide a non labeled task that wouldn't increase the enumeration, but now it increases the enumeration, giving me a…
The Fourth Man
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How to skip some arabic labels in task environment?

I am writing an answer key to a (math) problem set which contains, suppose, 10 problems. To generate a sequence of numbers I am using task environment with global settings \NewTasks[label = {\bf \arabic*.},label-width=4ex]{answers}[\a]. For example,…
prashant sharma
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How to auto-fit a left-to-right list?

For instance, \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tasks} \begin{document} \begin{tasks}(3) \task A \task B \task C \task D \task E \task F \end{tasks} \vspace{1cm} \begin{tasks}(5) \task A \task B \task C \task D \task E \task…
Ali
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An appropriate value for `item-indent` in tasks package

I have three examples of increasing functions that I have listed using the tasks package. A value in the \settasks{} command is item-indent=2cm. I want the left edge of iii.) to be indented 2em from the left margin, though. I set label-width…
Adelyn
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Increment counter by 2 in tasks package

I am using the tasks package to layout answers to exercises. However the exercises are numbered 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. Of course tasks wants to increment by 1 to get 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Is there anyway to set a increment value for…
rhody
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How to modify the decimal separator of the tasks package?

By default, the decimal separator of the tasks package is the period. In French, it is the comma. How to make the following code display a comma while keeping the period in the source code? In other words, the following…
AndréC
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