September 21, 2013
by D. P. Story
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This article is about problems that questions that ask the student to simplify or factor of a mathematical expression. Without the aid of a computer algebra system, this is a tricky problem for exerquiz. Still, this article provides some ideas … Continue reading
August 27, 2013
by D. P. Story
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In an earlier post (On Requiring minimal time for a Quiz) techniques for requiring the respondent to spend a minimal amount of time on a quiz. In this demonstration file, we add to this be limiting the amount of time … Continue reading
May 14, 2013
by D. P. Story
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A user recently asked whether there is a way to require the student to review an exerquiz quiz for a minimal amount of time. That is, the student is not allowed to press the ‘End Quiz’ button until a specified … Continue reading
January 20, 2012
by D. P. Story
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Since obtaining my smart phone, a Samsung Focus, Windows OS, I’ve surfed the Internet and have viewed web pages and PDF documents. The experience of viewing PDFs is now as great as with many web pages. The document is normally … Continue reading
September 14, 2011
by D. P. Story
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For AcroTeX users that use the Adobe Distiller as the PDF creator, there are several changes in Acrobat 10.1.1 that affect your workflow.
September 11, 2011
by D. P. Story
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The AcroTeX Presentation Bundle (APB) is entirely compatible with the rmannot package and the cntdwn package. The rmannot package, which requires a Acrobat Distiller PDF creator, is used to insert FLV (and F4V), SWF, and MP3 files into a PDF … Continue reading
September 1, 2011
by D. P. Story
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In this technical article, we illustrate several features: Annotating a Continuing Problem with Parts: When a problem with parts crosses a page boundary, eqexam can now automatically insert at the top of the next page a text string, “Problem xx … Continue reading
September 1, 2011
by D. P. Story
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The eqexam package has had for many years a coverpage option. In light of my recent work on page totals (see recent blog article), I’ve added a new option called coverpagesumry. The coverpagesumry option accepts one of three values. byparts: … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
by D. P. Story
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The focus of attention of the three previous blog articles in this thread, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, was on the creation of the textbook itself, the Instructor Edition and the more lucrative Student Edition. We turn now … Continue reading
August 10, 2011
by D. P. Story
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The eqexam package is compatible with the hyperref package, and is tightly integrated with exerquiz (part of AeB). In this article, we compiled fortexbook.ltx, first introduced in the article The fortextbook option: Part 1, The Instructor Edition, with the hyperref … Continue reading
August 7, 2011
by D. P. Story
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The student edition is the one that is mass produced and sold to the student population. The answers to the odd-numbered problems are in the back of the book, the all answers or only odd-numbered answer to the chapter tests … Continue reading
August 6, 2011
by D. P. Story
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We begin a thread on a major new feature of the eqexam package; the new feature is accessed through the fortextbook option, and as the name suggests, it is designed to support the authoring of textbooks, in particular, but not … Continue reading