I would like to export a text document which uses the exam class to markdown. To do so, I am currently using a workaround which was suggested in this answer, which relies on pseudo-definitions which in turn overwrite the definitions of the exam class such that pandoc can produce a clean markdown file.
Although, the workaround works for the suggested multiple-choice questions, I cannot adopt the solution to work for text with “fillin gaps” such as the document below:
\documentclass[answers]{exam}
\usepackage{minted}
\let\oldpart\part
\renewcommand{\part}[1][]{\oldpart[#1]{}}
\begin{document}
\begin{questions}
\question Exercise 1
\begin{parts}
\part[1] This fills in the \fillin[blanks][3cm]
\end{parts}
\end{questions}
\end{document}
If I use the following pseudo-definitions in a separate file:
% ignore \part
\renewcommand{\part}[0][1]{}
% Treat checkboxes like an itemized list
\newenvironment{checkboxes}{\begin{itemize}}{\end{itemize}}
\renewcommand{\CorrectChoice}{\item ☒ }
\renewcommand{\choice}{\item ☐ }
\renewcommand\fillin[2][{}]{\textbf{#1}}
I get the following broken markdown output
This fills in the **blanks**3cm\]
Moreover is there a way for pandoc to ignore \begin{parts} and \end{parts} so that there are no ::: in the final Markdown file?
The \fillin problem can be solved with
\newcommand{\fillin}[1][1]{\textbf{#1}\noop}
whereas the parts div can be removed with
\newenvironment{parts}{}{}
Related
I am trying to create a solution pdf for an exam but all I need for it is a simple marked box and not the answer list that follows. For example, I just want the first page from the following compilation and nothing else.
library(exams)
exams2pdf(list(
"boxplots",
c("tstat", "ttest", "confint"),
c("regression", "anova"),
"scatterplot",
"relfreq"
), template = "solution"
)
I don't have a strong grasp of the Latex language so when I try removing for example
\newenvironment{answerlist}{\renewcommand{\labelenumi}{(\alph{enumi})}\begin{enumerate}}{\end{enumerate}}
or
% \exinput{exercises}
It doesn't compile and just complains about a missing item etc
Which part of solution.tex can I remove that retains just the first page?
Solution: You need to delete all of the following lines from your copy of solution.tex:
\newpage
\begin{enumerate}
%% \exinput{exercises}
\end{enumerate}
Details: This LaTeX code starts a new page and includes an enumerated list for the individual exercises. The \exinput{exercises} is replaced with each of the {question} (and optionally {solution}) environments which then produces an \item for each question. So if you just remove the \exinput line, LaTeX complains about missing items because the {enumerate} list is empty.
Documentation: More details for exams2pdf() and its LaTeX templates can be found in vignette("exams", package = "exams").
I'm having an issue with the natbib package. When the bib entry is missing an author I want to display the editor instead. However the second citation just takes the first three letters of the bib-key instead of the author.
Sample tex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[authoryear,round]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}
\begin{document}
I need this \citet[S.~2]{Test1} to look like Surname (2022, S. 2).
and this \citep{Test1} like (Surname, 2022)
But also this \citet[S.~2]{Test2} to look like Editor (2022, S. 2).
and this \citep{Test2} like (Editor, 2022)
but it just prints (Tes, 2022)
\bibliography{refs}
\end{document}
The bib file could look like this:
#misc{Test1,
author={Surname, Name}
title = {Sometitle},
year = {2022}
}
#misc{Test2,
title = {Someothertitle},
editor={{Editor, Name}}
year = {2022}
}
Can anyone help with this? I'd also switch to another package than natbib, since I'm still early on the project. But at a first glance it seemed to meet my needs quite well.
Also I don't really know what I'm doing, it's been a while since I've been working with Latex. So sorry for that in advance!
Although the user posting the initial question here was able to switch to biblatex (which is good), not everyone has that freedom for some publishing venues. If this applies to you (that you have to stay with natbib and plainnat, you may be interested in a TeX Stack Exchange post that provides a description of how you can customize your BST file to modify your sorting, including configuring misc to sort by author then editor.
EDIT: A down-check for this answer being unhelpful inspired me to be more specific than my original answer above so the additional details specific to this case are below.
Since your provided code has natbib using abbrvnat (not plainnat as in the linked example that I initially provided), you can find abbrvnat.bst in your TeX repository and place a local copy with a different name (like abbrvnat-copy.bst) into your working directory. There are two steps in modifying your local copy of abbrvnat-copy.bst: First, update the calc.short.authors function to also look for an editor in the misc type. Second, have your TeX file use your newly customized BST file.
Note: I am using the 2007 version of abbrvnat.bst, which is the latest as of this posting in 2022.
In your local copy of abbrvnat-copy.bst, search for the calc.short.authors function. We'll need to add two lines of code to it:
type$ "misc" =
or
I show the new version here:
FUNCTION {calc.short.authors}
{ type$ "book" =
type$ "inbook" =
or
type$ "misc" =
or
'author.editor.key.label
{ type$ "proceedings" =
'editor.key.organization.label
{ type$ "manual" =
'author.key.organization.label
'author.key.label
if$
}
if$
}
if$
'short.list :=
}
In your TeX file, you'll need to change this line to account for your newly customized file: \bibliographystyle{abbrvnat-copy}. Other than this one line in your main .tex file and adding a couple missing commas in your .bib file, I did not change any code in your MWE.
Here's the output:
Other aspects that you may want to address (that you didn't ask about) include getting the editor(s) to appear in the bibliography (references list) for misc entries and sorting by editor for misc entries. The example that I provided here and the example provided in the other post that I previously linked should both be helpful in customizing your BST file to achieve your desired bibliography style.
Just curious if anyone knows how to customize the sphinx output when using the latexpdf target? I've seen lots of custom stuff for html output, but cant seem to find any example of custom pdf output.
Specifically, I'd be interested in customizing the title page, headers, footers, and possibly adding a few pages of front matter before the contents.
Has anyone seen any examples of this kind of customization, or do people pretty much just use the "stock" sphinx output when generating pdfs? Thanks!
Yes i think better or clearer documentation for latex styling would be nice and
some examples.
Here is a question on the sphinx mailing list, which is about about using packages.
sphinx has its own latex documentclass in a file called sphinxmanual.cls or
sphinxhowto.cls, if i remember correctly its a report documentclass that is used as base.
then there is 2 style files, which are the packages, it is those files contents
that are called on when you write \usepackage{mylatexstilefile}
Question about using latex packages
http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev/browse_thread/thread/890dab5e53fff004
Here is my conf.py.
preamb_old = ur'''
%\documentclass{memoir}
\makeatletter
\fancypagestyle{normal}{
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{{\py#HeaderFamily\thepage}}
\fancyfoot[LO]{{\py#HeaderFamily\nouppercase{\rightmark}}}
\fancyfoot[RE]{{\py#HeaderFamily\nouppercase{\leftmark}}}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{{\py#HeaderFamily \#title}} % here's the change
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
}
\makeatother
%\color {blue}
%\normalcolor {dark blue}
\pagecolor [RGB]{255, 247, 226}
\definecolor{VerbatimColor}{rgb}{0.95,0.85,0.65}
\definecolor{VerbatimBorderColor}{rgb}{0.5,0.95,0.1}
'''
f = open('graph/static/latexstyling.tex', 'r+')
PREAMBLE = f.read();
latex_elements = {
'papersize':'a4paper',
'pointsize':'11pt',
'classoptions': ',openany',
'babel': '\\usepackage[english]{babel}',
'preamble': PREAMBLE
}
i don't use preamble_old anymore, but it is an example of changes directly in
conf.py, to your latex preamble.
Check out latex_elements and latex_additional_files in the sphinx docs as
a starting point.
I'm producing a set of documents in LaTeX, and I would like to provide a single, global bibliography page for the whole set. This is because each document is page-limited: I don't want to take up space with references at the bottom of each one.
This means in each case, I would like to cite in the text, but not produce a reference at the end. I am using bibtex/natbib to handle the referencing.
Simplest example:
\documentclass[]{article}
\bibliographystyle{/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/natbib/plainnat.bst}
\usepackage{natbib}
\begin{document}
In \citet*{MEF2010} I described the method.
\bibliography{bibliography.bib}
\end{document}
How can I do this? Essentially I just want it to cite correctly:
In Bloggs, Blagg and Blog (2010) I described the method.
But not add a references section at the end. Any ideas?
Thanks,
David
Instead of using \bibliography{bibliography.bib} you can try \nobibliography{bibliography.bib}.
You still need to enter the path so it can make the cross-references.
It happens due to missing packages. If you want to resolve the problem then enable the automatic installation packet. After that,First, you run the BibTeX file and generate the Pdf file (instead of pdfLatex file) and then pdfLatex to Pdf
I have some initialization code in a XeLaTeX file which I would like to put into a separate file so that I can reuse it in future texts. What is the fastest way to convert my XeLaTeX code to a LaTeX class file?
You can put your preamble code into a .cls file and then use \documentclass{mydocstyle} to load it. Your .cls file will look like this:
% Declare that this document class file requires at least LaTeX version 2e.
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
% Provide the name of your document class, the date it was last updated, and a comment about what it's used for
\ProvidesClass{mydocstyle}[2010/09/13 Bluetulip's custom LaTeX document style]
% We'll pass any document class options along to the underlying class
\DeclareOption*{%
\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{article}% or book or whatever
}
% Now we'll execute any options passed in
\ProcessOptions\relax
% Instead of defining each and every little detail required to create a new document class,
% you can base your class on an existing document class.
\LoadClass{article}% or book or whatever you class is closest to
% Now paste your code from the preamble here.
% Replace \usepackage with \RequirePackage. (The syntax for both commands is the same.)
% Finally, we'll use \endinput to indicate that LaTeX can stop reading this file. LaTeX will ignore anything after this line.
\endinput
Note that document class files can get much more complicated (if you want to include options like \documentclass[option]{mydocstyle}, etc.), but this basic format should get you started.
Save your file as mydocstyle.cls and put it in the current directory with your .tex file.
You can also take a look at the LaTeX2e for class and package writers guide. It'll walk you through this in more detail.