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.
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Custom label for references using tasks inside a xsim exercise
In order to create an assignment sheet, I am using the xsim package and to create subquestions within a question, I use the package tasks. The problem comes while referring to the subquestions. ...
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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{\...
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Size of linewidth with xsim and geometry packages
I'm trying to make a bunch of lines for an exercise list using the blank command from the xsim package.
However, when I use the geometry package to change the size of the page, I get the following ...
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Odd vertical spacing with xsim
I'm trying to write the following document with xsim, using some customized templates based on the predefined ones:
\documentclass{scrartcl}%
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{xsim,mdframed}%
\...
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xsim slow with external files
I'm using the package xsim for writing exercises. The exercises are stored in external files and when I use several files, the latex compilation is slow. It is at least 3-4 minutes.
The exercises ...
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Creating a multi-labeled question bank with xsim/exam
I want to make a question bank on functional equations problems (in mathematical olympiads) using xsim or exam (or any other) packages.
The number of the questions is huge (around 3000) and I have ...
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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-...
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Inverse search in xsim with Texstudio
I can't get xsim to get along with TexStudio's inverse search (Ctrl left-clicking in the live preview brings up the corresponding source code). The problem is that when I left-click in a given ...
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Confine each exercise/question to one page using xsim
I can do the following:
\begin{samepage}
\begin{exercise}
Long text question or maybe a table and some stuff etc.
\end{exercise}
\end{samepage}
But I would prefer to have this automated (since I ...
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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 ...
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How to print solution with ID in xsim?
I have recently adopted xsim (the successor of exsheets, author Clemens Niederberger) and had the following question: How can I select SOLUTIONS by ID? I wanted to be able to choose where to print ...
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avoid printing points in xsim
I'm trying to migrate from exsheets to xsim, and I was wondering if there is an easy way to tell xsim not to print the points of the exercises (I'm thinking about a parameter added within xsimsetup). ...
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Adjusting margins for points in margin with xsim
With xsim, how can you adjust the space between the exercise and the number of points, using the default style?
If I change the horizontal margins manually for my document (using geometry), then the ...
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xsim and "conditional" printing
I'd like to know if the following is possible with the xsim package:
Could the space created by commands like \blank[width=4.8\linewidth,linespread=1.5]{} (as given in the manual) not be printed if ...
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Automatic blackening out answers based on a single comment
I am designing question papers comprising of multiple choice questions. The answers are to be marked by blackening the appropriate answers (more than one may be correct) in an answer sheet. In my ...
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Splitting up gradetables in xsim
I am using the great xsim-package to create a new exam-template at work.
So far, I have the following setting:
I created two exercise-types, one for the first part of the exam (question) and one for ...
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Hyphenation and strange line breaks with xsim \blanks
I have a problem with the line breaks using \blank from the xsim package.
As shown in the following picture the line breaks, even if there would be way enough space to finish it at both questions (...
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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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extra solution for \blank in xsim necessary?
I was wondering if/why it is necessary to have the extra solution for the \blank exercises, as the question already contains all the informations.
One reason for the question is, that it is extra work ...
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more complex use of tags in xsim
I would like to use the tag level (1,2,3) in xsim, but not only in exclusive manner, but as multiple tags, so that an exercise can have the tag level 1 and 2. So that, collecting later all level 2 ...
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Is there a command for separated lines for each word in a \blank in xsim?
I want to print a cloze with xsim, but instead of one complete line for the gap I want a line that indicates how many words there have to be.
Of course it's doable by giving each word an extra blank, ...
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How can I print exercise with ID in xsim?
I have some exercises with ID.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[paperwidth=17cm, paperheight=24cm, left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{fouriernc}
\usepackage{xsim,pgffor}
\...
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xsim access exercises text
While experimenting with xsim I found that a basic functionality for me is missing: printing solutions which repeat the exercise's text (btw: styled with tcolorbox). I could emulate a similar behavior ...
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Pass a macro as parameter to package xsim
I am trying to write a document using the xsim package. It is divided into chapters and each contains its own exercises and its solutions, at the end of each.
At present, the structure of each ...
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Unwanted vertical space with enumitem list in xsim exercise environment
I am using the xsim package to create exercise sets. Some exercises begin immediately with parts (a), (b) etc and no introductory text. I've used other answers from here to set up an enumitem list ...
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Change enumeration style in exercises using xsim
Forgive me if this has already been asked, but I couldn't find this question, exactly. I'm using the xsim package (documentclass book) and I'd like my "top"-level enumeration to be labeled with ...
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