Re: examdesign layout, or multiple-choice questions in LyX

2010-11-15 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
As requested, I've attached a sample LyX file that uses the exam layout. In this file you can see some of the tricks I used to get around a few of the shortcomings of exam.cls. I now use the examdesign.cls with ordinary LaTeX because it seems better for my own needs. --Jason Waskiewicz Bo

Re: examdesign layout, or multiple-choice questions in LyX

2010-11-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> of any progress regarding nesting in a layout files? Does 2.0 have >> anything new to offer? If this is technically feasible, should I file >> a bug report? > > Here is the email where I troubleshot the compile failures down to the > practice o

Re: examdesign layout, or multiple-choice questions in LyX

2010-11-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 14 November 2010 06:03:35 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Jason Waskiewicz > > wrote: > > I hope you find something here that you can use. The limitation I see > > with LyX is the ability to nest in a layout file. > > Yes, Steve has been singling out this ver

Re: examdesign layout, or multiple-choice questions in LyX

2010-11-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Jason Waskiewicz wrote: > With LyX, I use Hirschorn's exam class:  http://www-math.mit.edu/~psh/#ExamCls > After a couple of quick checks, this class is the same as the one shipped with TeX Live. > I found a layout file that requires a lot of ERT, but does succes

Re: examdesign layout, or multiple-choice questions in LyX

2010-11-14 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes: > > Dear all > I'm coming back with a question that was raised several times on the > list, but that didn't yet get a definitive answer: creating > multiple-choice exams using LyX. > > The exam.layout posted on the list [1] can be useful is some cases, > but ca