TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [xsim]

xsim is the official successor of exsheets. Use this tag if you have a question about xsim. For questions about other packages like exsheets use the respective tag instead.

xsim is the official successor of exsheets. Use this tag if you have a question about xsim. For questions about other packages like exsheets use the respective tag instead.

It supports many interesting features, such as verbatim material in questions, management of points and bonus points, collections of questions and templates for exercises and solutions.

134 questions
7
votes
1 answer

How can I print exercise with ID in xsim?

I have some exercises with ID. \documentclass{report} \usepackage[paperwidth=17cm, paperheight=24cm,…
minhthien_2016
  • 9,467
4
votes
1 answer

Exercise order in grading tables using xsim and collections

I'm trying to build exam sheets with xsim using collections where exercises doesn't show up in the id order. The exercises print in the specified order (= counter order) in the exam itself but in the id order in the grading table which can be…
ParticuleAlpha
  • 41
4
votes
1 answer

xsim: problems with multiple questions

With xsim, how to type a problem with several parts (questions) in such a way that a number of points is assigned to each part and the total number of points for the whole problem is calculated automatically. The package eqexam offers that feature…
realjsk
  • 43
3
votes
1 answer

xsim-package: subexercises and points calculation

I want to setup exercises/questions for an exam. Some exercises will have subquestions. When there are no subquestions I can simply specify the "points" property and get that neat space in the right margin to fill in the points. However, I did not…
RL-S
  • 229
3
votes
1 answer

Printing solution of mcq using xsim

How to print the solution of multiple choice question in the following example…
cosmicraga
  • 2,630
3
votes
1 answer

True/False type Questions with xsim package

How to make true/false type questions in 'xsim' package? In the manual of 'xsim', I could not find…
cosmicraga
  • 2,630
2
votes
1 answer

xsim number chapterwise in own exercise environment

My code is: \documentclass{scrbook} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} %Rahmenumgebung \usepackage{tcolorbox} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \tcbuselibrary{skins,breakable,xparse} \usepackage[% blank,%With this option enabled xsim will not dene the…
Michael.H
  • 107
2
votes
1 answer

xsim: Can't get custom exercise types to use custom numbering

Using xsim, I have defined two custom exercise types, meditation and thoughtexperiment. They seem to work right, except for custom numbering. I'm trying to get meditation to appear as Meditation Question 13.4.7.1 (if it's in section 13.4.7, of…
Gil Williams
  • 327
2
votes
1 answer

How could I change the points design?

IN xsim package, I want to get any new style for points -or remove the dash at…
Mamoun Mohammed
  • 1,634
2
votes
2 answers

Get the value of \TotalExerciseGoal

I am trying to print the total points of my exercises using the "\num"-command of siunitx, in order to have a comma separted format. I am getting an invalid-token error when trying \num{\TotalExerciseGoal{points}{}{}} which is probably because…
mspee
  • 43
2
votes
1 answer

xsim: question/solution throws 'environment already defined'

In xsim I would like to combine a question environment with a solution environment. I am getting an error: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! LaTeX error: "xparse/environment-already-defined" ! ! Environment 'solution' …
PatrickT
  • 2,923
1
vote
1 answer

Resetting counter exercise for each page with Xsim package

I've seen this topic:How to reset exercise counter in XSIM but thats's not exactly what I want. I am creating a document which contains exercices for my students. Each page contains exercices for only one student and I would like to reset the…
Didier
  • 1,311
1
vote
1 answer

Collecting hints to exercises with xsim

I have a few chapters to my book. Inside each chapter there are a few exercises and for each exercise there are solutions and to some of them also a hint. The last chapter of the book will be a collection of the hints and solutions, collected by…
tush
  • 1,115
1
vote
2 answers

Remove hint reference when there is no hint

I am using xsim to print hints and solutions to exercises. All of the exercises have corresponding solutions, but not all exercises have hints, as shown below. When there is no hint to an exercise, LaTeX still prints a hint reference but with an…
tush
  • 1,115
1
vote
0 answers

Why is XSIM printing exercise statements as solutions?

Whenever a solution is not provided, XSIM is repeating the statement of the exercise as its solution. This only happens for custom exercise types. In the example below, it should not show the "hint for task…
Leonardo Castro
  • 1,280
1
2 3 4