Hi all

Another comment from my experience: I design my survey in a third party app, 
save it as png in the exact size of the survey (a4 in my case).

I then use latex with graphicx package to place the png, and add all check 
boxes manually (by their absolute position)

This allows me to have a completely free layout.

Matthis

> On Aug 2, 2015, at 8:32 PM, Jérémie Lumbroso <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 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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