Re: [Texmacs-edu] exercise databases ?

[Julien Frontisi]

Bonjour,

Je cherche un moyen de construire avec TeXmacs une base de données d'exercices.

Le but est d'avoir un fichier unique à partir duquel on pourrait sélectionner certains exercices

et créer automatiquement un fichier .tm contenant cette sélection.

J'ai reçu sur la liste texmacs-users deux réponses que j'inclus ici.

Heureux que texmacs-edu fonctionne !

Julien

Le 30 mai 2012 à 05:56, Aleksandr Dobkin a écrit :

I think there are several approaches.

1) You can put each problem in it's own TeXmacs file and include the ones you want in the master document using Insert > Link > Include... .

2) If you want to define all the problems in the same document you can do so in the preamble. If you put an assign tag in the preamble, e.g. <assign|p1|My Problem Text>, you can include in the main document as <p1>.

Numbering you get for free by inserting Question environments, for example, using Insert > Enunciation > Question.

Alex

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Julien Frontisi <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,
does anyone know if there is a simple way to create exercise databases with texmacs with the possibility
to select and extract some exercises out of the lot and then automatically create a document with the chosen exercises ?
Hope that's clear.
More generally, select some items out of a collection and create a new document listing the selected items. (Besides manually copy/pasting each, of course...)
(Re-)numbering of the items would be great.
Thanks
Julien
ps : sorry for double-posting this on the texmacs-edu list and here, I'm not sure if that one is working yet (no archive available).

Le 30 mai 2012 à 09:44, Sam Liddicott a écrit :

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Aleksandr Dobkin <address@hidden> wrote:

I think there are several approaches.

1) You can put each problem in it's own TeXmacs file and include the ones you want in the master document using Insert > Link > Include... .

2) If you want to define all the problems in the same document you can do so in the preamble. If you put an assign tag in the preamble, e.g. <assign|p1|My Problem Text>, you can include in the main document as <p1>.

I do it rather like (2) but not in the pre-amble. I had to produce some documents which showed step-by-step how to configure some systems, and most of the steps were the same but took different parameters so I developed a nice way of parameterising paragaphs. See attached zip file.

There is a file: templates.ts which allows one to use:

<save-chunk|chunk-name|...>

In the document one can use <placeholder|name|default-value>.

The first time placeholder is used for a name, it defines the name to the provided default-value, otherwise it uses the defined value (which can be overridden <with|name|new-value> or <assign|name|new-value>

This way I can define blocks of document and then re-use them inside a <with|...> block to change the rendering.

So I write a document using the template.ts which makes all my definitions. I can save this document as a .ts file instead of a .tm file. I do not use the "source" style sheet.

I then use this .ts file AND the templates.ts for my new document. Then I can invoke all the pre-defined chunks as I like (with parameterisations) my document.

So in the zip file, templates-test.ts is the database.

However it is a couple of years since I wrote it and I will re-write it soon, but it is very servicable. I have trouble rememberering how to make the templateised graphics work, but you must specify the width and height explicitly!

Sam

templates.zip
Description: Zip archive

Le 31 mai 2012 à 00:38, El.Douwen a écrit :

Salut julien
Je crois que cette liste est en francais
Ca maiderait si tu pouvais reformuler
Bonne nuit
Vincent

Envoyé de mon iPhone

Le 29 mai 2012 à 19:39, Julien Frontisi <address@hidden> a écrit :

Hi,

does anyone know if there is a simple way to create exercise databases with texmacs with the possibility

to select and extract some exercises out of the lot in order to automatically create a document with the chosen exercises ?

Hope that's clear.

Thanks

Julien