Questions tagged [exsheets]

The {exsheets} package provides flexible means to create exercises and corresponding solutions for exercise sheets, exams and problems in text books.

exsheets provides flexible means to create exercises and corresponding solutions for exercise sheets, exams and problems in text books. Problems can also be included selectively from external files. Solutions can be printed separated from the problems.

The package offers many possibilities to customize the output.

164 questions
9
votes
1 answer

How can I get a question's difficulty to be typeset in the question's heading?

In his excellent exsheets package, cgnieder explains how to define custom dividing concepts, such as question difficulty. After difficulty has been as a new dividing concept, each question can be attributed a certain difficulty value, such as, for…
jub0bs
  • 58,916
8
votes
1 answer

How to change the counter of problems or questions and solutions to start from any number?

I have a homework. The problems chosen by the lecturer are often not in arithmetic sequence so I have to change the problem counter (and its solution counter)…
6
votes
1 answer

How to create two versions of a document?

I've read similar questions, but my problem seems to require a little more sophisticated solution. I have some notes that I want as my lecture notes and as handouts. These two versions will have a different set of questions and answers. I'm using…
user150246
  • 173
  • 3
6
votes
1 answer

Maintainable approach to adding a title to an exsheets question?

I've started using cgnieder's wonderful exsheets package for my problem sets, but it seems to be missing a valuable functionality: exercise titles. In my case, the latter would prove particularly useful because they can provide a concise (if…
jub0bs
  • 58,916
6
votes
1 answer

How to change the title of "question" environment from English to another language?

I want to change the title question in English to other language. How to do that? You can choose any other language in your answer. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{exsheets} \begin{document} \begin{question} What is your…
5
votes
1 answer

exsheets reorder questions

I'm using the excellent exsheets package, and I'd like to have different orders of questions in the different variants of my test. That is, I'd like \variant{1} to print one order of questions, \variant{2} to print another, etc. So given a document…
Steve
  • 231
5
votes
1 answer

How to automatically provide a blank space after a question based on the solution size?

I want to generate a problem booklet that provides a more accurate space after each question. As I always make the solution as general as possible, I think I can use the size of my solution for the size of the associated blank space. I don't want to…
4
votes
1 answer

Print only pointsum since last printed pointsum in exsheets

Is there something like a \nextpointssum command which prints the sum of all points since the last occurrence of \nextpointssum in exsheets? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{exsheets} \begin{document} \begin{question}{2} Question…
student
  • 29,003
4
votes
1 answer

How to change the question number from just '1' to 'Question No. 1.' in the book class?

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{book} \usepackage{kantlipsum} \usepackage{exsheets} \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{exclist}{default}{ runin = true , number-post-code = \space , attach = { main[r,vc]number[l,vc](-1em,0pt) } , above =…
Young
  • 165
4
votes
1 answer

Aligning Exsheets Answer with \printsolutions

When using exsheets package,I have a problem with \printsolution[all]. \documentclass[UTF8,11pt,a4paper]{book} \usepackage{kantlipsum} \usepackage[load-tasks=true]{exsheets} \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{exclist}{default}{ runin = true , …
bech
  • 41
4
votes
1 answer

ExSheets includequestions

I have a large file database.tex with a lot of questions and solutions in the format of the ExSheets package. If I include multiple questions with one \includequestions command, the questions are included in the order of there definition in…
Ivo
  • 977
4
votes
1 answer

Exsheets: how do I print the 'solutions' on the same line?

I want to print (dump) the solutions to questions at the end of the book. If I just use \printsolutions I get every solution on a new line (as a new paragraph). I need to have them on the same line (only numbers, no names), Something like this: 1)…
alwaysask
  • 2,248
  • 13
  • 16
4
votes
1 answer

Put points of question into brackets in exsheets

I want align the points value of questions to margin and put inside brackets with exsheets package. MWE: \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[load-headings,load-tasks,]{exsheets} \usepackage{lipsum} \SetupExSheets{ points/name = pont, …
uzsolt
  • 1,431
4
votes
1 answer

Exsheets: print solutions per section fails

I'm using the exsheets package to write exercises and solutions in a textbook. My purpose is to list some exercises at the end of each section followed by their corresponding solutions, as intended in the following…
Josef
  • 105
3
votes
1 answer

How to add subtitle on a new line with exsheets

I am using exsheets to create exercises. This package has the option to add a subtitle to a set of questions. My question is, I can't figure out how to put the subtitle on its own line. The screenshot shows the subtitle "Simplify etc" on the same…
rhody
  • 1,020
1
2 3 4