November 13, 2020
by D. P. Story
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A text fill-in type question, which has been a part of exerquiz for many years, is implemented through the \RespBoxTxt and \RespBoxTxtPC commands. In this article, familiarity with these two commands is assumed. In response to a question, a students … Continue reading
April 18, 2020
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Some PDF previewer applications, notably PDF-XChange and evince, do not handle radio buttons in the same way as do AA/AR. A PDF viewer may not support PDF forms at all (such as SumatraPDF), while others, such as TeXworks may supply the … Continue reading
April 4, 2020
by D. P. Story
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In this article, we survey various methods of incorporating a figure into a problem. There are two placement locations for the figure: (1) in the work area, and (2) in the questions area. Traditionally (for eqexam documents), the figure is … Continue reading
May 18, 2018
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The traditional way of handling a multi-line text field is to allow the field to scroll, in this way an unlimited amount of text may be entered. But some text may not be visible, and as a result, not all … Continue reading
April 18, 2018
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With the publication of aeb_mlink dated 2018/04/17 or later comes the ability to create multi-line links that can break across page boundaries. Multi-line links (and single line links for that matter) that break across page boundaries are not supported by … Continue reading
March 24, 2018
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The version of the aeb_mlink package dated 2018/03/22 or later now fixes the rectangles created by a multi-line link command by combining all rectangles on the same line. The result is a link that looks as if was created by … Continue reading
March 3, 2018
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The second in the series on creating a rollover animation. In this demo, we use \texHelp* to create the same animation as in ro-autoanime.pdf, but the animation is not dismissed when the user exits the rollover-word. This enables the user … Continue reading
March 3, 2018
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In this demo file, which needs to be downloaded to your own computer and opened with Adobe Reader (or Acrobat), shows how to create a rollover animation. When the user rolls over the rollover-word, an animation is made visible and … Continue reading
March 2, 2018
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The \fillineol is similar to the \fillin command, but it calculates the width parameter automatically so the \fillin extends to the end of the line. The eqexam package dated 2018/02/19 or later required. Update: eqexam package dated 2019/10/29 for the … Continue reading
September 5, 2017
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The traditional way an math objective question is posed using the exerquiz command \RespBoxMath is to leave a blank text field into which the student enters his or her response to the question. An alternate strategy is to supply an … Continue reading
September 14, 2016
by D. P. Story
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AeB Pro (ctan.org/pkg/aeb-pro), dated 2016/08/03 or later, defines what are called ‘JavaScript Helper commands’ to simplify the use of security restricted JavaScript methods within the docassembly environment. In this article, we discuss the newest JavaScript Help Command, \docSaveAs.
August 28, 2016
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This article demonstrates how to make simple modifications to the messages of the DAD Game (Drag and Drop). The game is produced by the aeb_dad package. You play the `game’ by dragging a presidential picture and dropping it into a … Continue reading