Questions tagged [exsheets]
The {exsheets} package provides flexible means to create exercises and corresponding solutions for exercise sheets, exams and problems in text books.
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Migrating from exsheets to xsim
xsim looks fine.
EDIT, March 28, 2019
I know, the manual has to be read! But just one question: How to mimick in xsim this exsheets setup?
\SetupExSheets{%
counter-format = ch.qu,
counter-...
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Trying to use in command in exsheets package
I keep a database of the problems I like on Overleaf and use the exsheets package. I found myself writing something like this all the time:
\begin{question}[
class=A,
difficulty=M,
source=...
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Pycode code inside exsheet question
I want to create a table inside of a exsheets question (or solution) (using data defined in another pycode environment outside of it). But this doesn't work. What did I do wrong and how can I make it ...
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How to add a title and author to exsheets?
I have a nice exsheets template, however i just cannot manage to add a title and author! (if i add one it still compiles but title is never shown.). Please help me add a tilte & author?
Here is ...
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Issue after TL update 2019-01-10 related exsheets and LaTex3
Before yesterday TL update my file compiled well. Today I got the error:
! LaTeX3 Error: Variant form 'n' deprecated for base form (LaTeX3)
'__exsheets_blank_skip:N'. One should not change an (...
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xsim and questions in columns within tasks
I would do with xsim, successor of exsheets, the same I do with it: lists of questions inside a tasks environment.
Is that possible?
Something like this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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How to hang the question/exercise header?
I think below pic should be enough to illustrated what I mean:
The number 1,2,... are hang-ed to left, like a margin, how should I do like that in exsheets packages?
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Too much vertical space after displayed math in tasks environment
Tasks package inserts too much vertical space after displayed math:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tasks}
\begin{document}
\begin{tasks}
\task \[ X\rule{10cm}{1pt}X \]
\task \[ Y\rule{10cm}{...
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How to define choices instead of tasks and print answers at the end
I am trying to write some questions which are of objective or multiple choice format. The tasks package does the job except for two things:
Instead of \begin{tasks} and \task I want to write \...
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How to resume enumi in a question of exsheets?
I can resume by adding \setcounter{enumi}{\thetemp} before the first item \setcounter{temp}{\theenumi} after the last item where temp is my new counter. However this approach does not look elegant. I ...
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Textbook with exam questions and solutions all bundled together using exsheet
I would like to thank those who have edited my question, and thoae who had answered the previous post. I am trying to write a book with the following key features
Questions laid out in the exam class ...
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Why does not cross-referencing of exercises work with `exsheets`?
I am trying to use cleveref package to create custom referencing scheme for exercises created using exsheets. I customize cross-referencing of floats and equations very well using codes similar to the ...
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Print Questions with Code by Groups
I'd like to write a document with questions containing pieces of code (in minted environments), separated in two groups (say A and B, and with A∩B ≠ ∅), and their solution.
I'd like to be able to ...
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How can I change all the labels from the exsheets packages?
I am using Exsheets package to do an exam
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{exsheets}
\begin{document}
\begin{question}
Question Here
\end{question}
\begin{solution}
...
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Comma as decimal separator in exsheets package broken
If I want to allow a comma as a decimal separator for points in exams I usually use the solution proposed by @clemens in a comment here as in the example below.
However since I updated to texlive ...
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How to define a new environment with old environment by setting the optional parameter?
\documentclass{ctexbook}
\title{Introduction to Latex}
\author{Me}
\date{}
\usepackage{exsheets}
\SetupExSheets{counter-within={chapter}}
\newenvironment{myquestion}{\begin{question}[name={myExercise}...
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How to (use package exsheets to) make a exercise section at the end of each section or subsection like the following?
PS: exsheets isn't a must, all methods are welcome.
My document structure:
\documentclass{book}
\title{Introduction to Latex}
\author{Me}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\chapter{first}
\...
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Randomly selecting subquestions in exsheets
Here in the MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{exsheets}
\SetupExSheets{counter-format=}
\begin{document}
\begin{question}[name=Answer the following in one sentence]
\begin{enumerate}
\...
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Exam class with variations using exsheets
When I make an exam with 2 variations and add a points table at the end it considers that the exam has twice the number of questions.
How can you stop this from happening automatically?
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Analogue of examspace in xsim
I am looking to recreate what \examspace command does in exsheets with its successor xsim package. The default seems to be to leave blank lines (ouch!!).
Here is what I thought might work (but doesn'...
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Dynamically aligning points of exsheets question on the right/left in a multicol environment
My exercise sheets contains question in two columns. Every question has points which are to be displayed as [***] either on the right or on the left. I am using exsheets package. It provides a default ...
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Margins play spoilsport with figures in exsheets question
I am designing question papers. Several of these question contains graphs and I would like to format the graph in right half space of the question. I am using exsheets package for writing the ...
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Automated numbering of questions and solutions
I'm working on a textbook with sections and subsections, where some subsections are dedicated to exercises.
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\begin{document}
\section{First!}
\subsection{Some theorems}
...
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How to underline headings with exsheets?
Recently I discovered exsheets for creating my worksheets and exercise booklets. I usually do not use bold fonts, but underline my headings.
I'm sure there is a simple way to underline headings with ...
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How to select number questions in exsheets with some rules?
I have some questions in Database.tex (6 questions).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fouriernc}
\usepackage[paperwidth=17cm, paperheight=24cm, left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\...
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Exsheets package: use the chapter name in chapter-hook option
I am typesetting a problems book with the exsheets package. I want the structure of solutions to repeat the structure of the problems set. Chapter-hook and section-hook options allow to add custom ...
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Using color in exsheets counter-format causes error
With the exsheets package, I'm defining a new question type that should be distinguished by having a coloured number. The following MWE throws the error message "Use of \SaveCounterPattern doesn't ...
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control of existence or not of paragraph in exsheet header in question and solution environments
I'm new to exsheets (started to use it today), just installed the latest version. After some experiments I think I got the basics to start using it, regularly, except for one esthetics thing I would ...
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Can one use exsheets to produce a marks layout after each question?
I'm trying to get an exam layout of the form:
1. Blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah [ ]
blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahbla
hblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah.
where [ ] should be a fairly large (1 cm ...
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TikZ \pic gives error in a german exsheets enviroment
I am a german math teacher and prepearing my tests with a combination of exsheets and tikz. Since I am at triangles currently i tried to prepare a text but run into an error. I narrowed it down and ...
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Reset total points counter in exsheets
How can I reset the totalpoints counter in exsheets? For example if I create two variants of an exam I usually do this with includequestions and variants using two files. However if I want to include ...
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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{...
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Exsheets: Having two solutions to a question and printing them out separately
I'm using exsheets to write up a document that contains math questions and prints out the numerical solutions to each of the questions at the end. However, I would also like to include the worked ...
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Page break problem with exsheets: How to avoid this automatically?
I have a problem with exheets and page breaks. The document contains a lot of pictures and multiple exsheets environments as in my MWE below. The problem is that I often get bad looking page breaks as ...
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tcolorbox around exsheets heading
I want to style my ExSheets questions with a box around the headings but I can't make it work.
I got this far:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{...
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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 = { ...
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counter name for NewTasks environment
I'm using tasks (as a subset of exsheets) to create environments exer2 and exer3 which organize exercise sets in a calculus workbook into rows and columnns. I am also using the exsheets environments ...
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Spacing around lstquestion when solution are not printed
The exsheets gives handy commands to write exams, with a nice switch to print the answers. It also provides an environment to print code (using the exsheets-listings package).
However, even when the ...
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Use of \pointssum with selected questions [closed]
I would like to select questions by topic, as described in the exsheets manual. However, it seems that the \pointssum command does not respect this, instead adding points of all questions, even those ...
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Selecting not previously selected questions in exsheets
Is it possibile, using exsheets, to randomly select not recently selected question (like probsoln does, for example)?
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Even and odd questions in grade table using ExSheets
I would like to create a grade table using the ExSheets package. Unfortunately the table is too long for the title page. Having tried other approaches (e.g. longtable-environment, resizebox and others)...
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exsheets: headings and page break
If a picture doesn't fit on a page, it's printed one the following page, while it's heading (in my case just the exercise number) is printed on the page before.
Is it possible to print the heading ...
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Why does tcolorbox adds vertical space?
I use some tcolorboxes in the solution section of a math paper. For some reason there is some vertical space added.
How can I align the solution number with the top of the tcolorbox?
(The red boxes ...
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\usetikzlibrary{babel} does not work in exsheets’ question environment
I am trying to type math exercises by using XeLaTeX, the tikz-cd package for commutative diagrams, the babel package for German, and the exsheets package for formatting and organizing the questions ...
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Sympy in for Loop runaway argument error
I am trying to have the following document compile using sympytex. The goal is to generate squares of integers using sympy and the latex forloop into exsheets. I have been trying to fix the error for ...
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tikzpicture in exsheets solution
I get problems with \datavisualization in an exsheets solution. I only get a small cross but not the parabola.
Has someone similar experience and can help me?
\begin{solution}[print]
\begin{...
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Exsheets: Switching solution printing on/off multiple times [closed]
I'm having some troubles with the (otherwise excellent) exsheets package. I want to switch between printing the solution to a question and not printing it multiple times in one document. I am trying ...
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How to change the decimal separator in exsheets to comma [duplicate]
In the exsheets package the default decimal separator is dot. How can I change it to a comma?
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How to right align text relative to the word above?
I use exsheets to generate some exercise papers. The layout looks like this:
first comes the word EXERCISE
under the word EXERCISE are the exercises, which are numbered within the section
I would ...
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exsheets: How to print solutions to a very specific section?
I write some questions and answers with the exsheets package. I want to print the solution of a specific section, e.g. the solutions from section 2 of chapter 2.
What doesn't work
\printsolutions[...
