Hello,

Welcome to SDAPS!

I thought I could complement Benjamin's response from my experience:
- while the new class that Benjamin and some other people are working will
make this extremely convenient;
- for the moment, it is possible to hack the current package by using
minipage, and hspaces; it would ugly, but it would work exactly as you
want, and provide what you want.

Does this sound good?

Best,
Jérémie.



On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Benjamin Berg <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry, that I did not reply earlier.
>
> On Do, 2015-07-30 at 14:23 +0200, Steffen Hemer wrote:
> > I have an urgent question: we want to use some OMR software to evaluate
> > the counting sheets (for hit cones and off-course during race) and we
> > came across SDAPS. But the first problem was how to define and arrange
> > the checkboxes. I tried to use a table to arrange question (comparable
> > to HTML) but I get whole lot of errors.
>
> Hm, would need to play around it myself a bit. The trouble is, that the
> current class extensively uses tables in a way that break putting the
> questions themselves into tables.
>
> In general, there are a couple of valid approaches right now:
>  * Use a multicol environment (i.e. columns of text, not a table)
>  * Manually place the checkboxes, and emulate a (single) large question
>  * Use the new class (maybe not that good of an idea, unless you like
> to get your hands dirty)
>
> Hm, I think there should be an example of manual creating questions and
> placing checkboxes somewhere … maybe have a look at:
>  http://sdaps.org/FAQ#Is_it_possible_to_do_custom_layouts_in_LaTeX.3F
> and see if you can figure something out. If you still have questions,
> feel free to drop line.
>
> > Secondary I am yet unsure how it will work to count the marked boxes but
> > actually I haven't been that far.
>
> You would get a large CSV file, with a column for each checkbox
> indicating its state. If you do the second approach, you would probably
> create one "question" for each row. That means you get a large set of
> columns with headers in the form "_QUESTION_CHECKBOX" indicating row
> and column in your table.
> You should be able to add up the values using a script/tabular
> calculation software.
>
> > I will attach some source code and an example sheet. Maybe you can
> > give some helpful input and point me to the right direction. Sorry for
> > missing informations and feel free to complain about it. I will be
> > ready to provide more on this.
>
> Regards,
> Benjamin

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