6
votes
2answers
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Auto-generate attendance list

I am trying to generate attendance sheets for my class. I need the sheets to have two things: 1) a list of the students in the class with a blank for them to sign their names. 2) a randomized version ...
3
votes
1answer
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Automated table for excercise points in tikz

I'm a computer science student. And I write most of my excercises in LaTeX. So I often have to create a table for excercise points, with different numbers of excercises and different amounts of points ...
3
votes
1answer
128 views

how to use \loop … \repeat to generate an arbitrary number of rows in a table [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Copy table row n times The code below is intended to produce a table with 3 columns and 3 rows (one heading and two empty rows) but it can be seen that it doesn't work. ...
4
votes
1answer
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How to make tabularx columns using \whiledo?

My question is similar to that discussed in How to programmatically make tabular rows using `\whiledo` ?. The difference is that I want to produce columns rather than rows with using \whiledo. ...
3
votes
1answer
142 views

A macro for looping through a pgfplotstable set by cell

Hi following on from the following question on multi-line headers with pgfplotstable, the solution was to set each affected cell individually. I decided to throw together a command to do that but keep ...
5
votes
1answer
157 views

Auto generating table

In the following scheme, why do I have to hide & in a macro (\samp) before it works? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{catoptions} \makeatletter \cptnewcounts{rowcnt,colcnt,maxrow,maxcol} ...
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votes
3answers
354 views

problem with using loop inside the tabular environment

I am having trouble with using a loop inside a tabular environment: \newcounter{it} \setcounter{it}{0} \begin{tabular}{ll} \loop\ifnum\theit<4 \addtocounter{it}{1} Q & A\\ \repeat ...
6
votes
1answer
421 views

Pgffor and the alignment character (&)

I need to construct a table that looks like: \begin{tabular}{ccc} a(1,1) & a(1,2) & a(1,3)\\ % <--- a(2,1) & a(2,2) & a(2,3)\\ % <--- I need this a(3,1) & a(3,2) & ...
2
votes
1answer
237 views

looping in tabular

I am curious to know why the following failed. A similar thread is on comp.text.tex unanswered. Of course, other manipulations of \whileexpr work, but why does this fail? \documentclass{article} ...
0
votes
2answers
224 views

Environment with customizable number of table columns

I want to make macros for drawing group of questions with same answers with customizable text, number of answers and design (column widths, alignment, etc.), like this: ...
2
votes
3answers
240 views

How to get rid of these excessive rules?

\documentclass{article}%cannot be minimal \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{ifthen, xspace} \newcounter{xyz} \setcounter{xyz}{1} \def\and{&\xspace} \begin{document} ...
6
votes
1answer
548 views

Generating tables with \@for command

I'm making a report template that requires the list of authors to be presented in several different ways, one of which is a table that lists each author and provides a space for them to sign the ...