Hi-- Please accept my apologies if I have written to the wrong list. I would like to suggest an addition to LyX: an exam document style (exam.sty) done by Philip Hirschhorn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in 1994. I teach in a high school and currently use this application in emacs under LaTeX 2.09, for which it was originally written. However, I normally use LyX instead of Latex because I don't know enough LaTeX to do anything of consequence with it. No other application that I know about does what this style does: 1. Allows users to prepare a highly-polished exam which: 1.1 paginates automatically 1.2 numbers questions & renumbers same as needed 1.3 differentiates treatment of odd and even pages, if necessary 2. Provides for a variety of: 2.1 types of titles 2.2 running headers & footers as desired 2.3 horizontal rules 3. Enables insertion of: 3.3 boxes 3.4 tables 3.5 space fills, etc. 4. Gives considerable leeway for: 4.1 indicating point values for questions, if desired 4.2 including special instructions for question groups 4.3 naming parts of the exam 5. Automates: 5.1 question numbering 5.2 part and subpart additions as desired & numbering thereof 6. Facilitates: 6.1 manual page break override 6.2 flexible page layout, etc., 6.3 thus providing a user-friendly layout for those taking the exam 7. Prevents: 7.1 mistakes in page numbering 7.2 errors in sequencing questions 7.3 blunders in sequencing parts & sub-parts Feature #7 sold me on this style immediately because I misnumbered a final exam of about eighty questions just before starting to use this application. The part of the test which contained those question was to be answered on a scantron. Consequently, two numbers were apparently to be answered on the same corresponding machine-readable number. So, if for no other reason than to avoid such a problem, I would have begun to use this application. Because this application does so much so well, I think that including the exam document style in LyX would be a boon to teachers who, like me, use LyX, but who are not knowledgeable about LaTeX and prefer to see the "semi-finished product" before their eyes as they are doing the work-in-progress. IOW, this could do so much so well for so many. Unfortunately, I'm an ignoramus about doing anything beyond pounding on a keyboard with some application or other. Hence, I was delighted when my wife found LyX for me. She is the one who helps me do anything beyond random monkey taps within Linux and LyX. I feel sure other teachers who use LyX would derive great benefit from this style being added to LyX. Furthermore, the addition would add to the attractiveness of LyX in general to teachers who do not currently use LyX, especially math and science teachers in high schools. I teach French but am not at all Cartesian. Consequently, my wife deals with all system administration in our household. In addition, I rarely email anybody about anything. So, if you would like to communicate with me about this, please send her an email at: Connie Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I did not subscribe to this list.) Finally, I would like to thank everybody who reads this for the wonderful work which you have done with LyX for the "rest of us". I appreciate all your efforts and applaud your dedication to this project. Please do not ever think that your efforts go unnoticed by the great unwashed outside the GNU-Linux multiverse. Jim Frasier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
