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Version History

Version 2.4.2 (2019-08-30)

New features

  • Added some Visual Studio Code support infrastructure.

Updates

  • Internal code refactoring.

Version 2.4.1 (2017-08-30)

Updates

  • Added a little more detail to the automatically generated instructions for embargoed exams.

Version 2.4 (2016-08-27)

New features

  • Key-value options for the examsection, question, subquestion, and subsubquestion environments. These let you control things like whether marks and section titles are printed, and whether or not to compute and verify marks totals for sub-components of sections and questions.

  • A \questionskip length to let you adjust the spacing between top-level questions.

  • Optional questions—e.g., answer any three of five, where each question is worth 20 marks each, for a total of 60—freaked out the automatic total verification. The totalling can now be disabled for a section using the don't verify total option (see above).

  • Added new embargo class option for embargoed exam papers, which have somewhat different title page formatting requirements.

Fixes

  • The various question environments must now be correctly nested (i.e., sub-sub-questions within sub-questions within questions). [Stephen Cranefield]

  • The draft class option now has the full functionality you would expect (change bars, etc.).

  • Disabled the twocolumn class option.

  • Obsoleted the \newsection macro, which has been deprecated for ten years!

  • ouexam was incompatible with the hyperref package. Fixed. [Mark George]

  • Float pages on the last page of the document messed up both the page count and the “TURN OVER”/“END” sequencing. Fixed. (Also removed the lastpage page style as part of this fix.) [Stephen Cranefield]

  • Fixed bug that caused a crash when there was a verbatim environment followed by a blank line at the end of a question. [Mark George]

  • Updated to latest 2016 calculator rules.

Version 2.3.1 (2014-09-15)

  • Removed “Paper” from the title box to conform to University standards.

Version 2.3 (2012-09-04)

  • Updated exam paper formatting to conform to latest University standards.

  • Added times class option.

  • Disabled 10pt and 11pt class options.

  • ouexam now requires the fontenc, textcomp and lmodern packages.

  • Generating the class documentation now requires PDFLaTeX.

Version 2.2 (2010-04-26)

  • Added time allocation macros.

Version 2.1.3 (2009-04-28)

  • Changed the defaults for \material, \copiesof and \otherinstructions to “N/A”.

  • Fixed vertical spacing of title page.

Version 2.1.2 (2008-08-14)

  • The “subject to inspection” messages that appear in the calculators and permitted material sections of the title page now only appear when calculators are allowed or there actually is additional permitted material, respectively.

Version 2.1.1 (2006-08-21)

  • “END” is now printed at the bottom of the last page of the exam.

Version 2.1 (2004-04-16)

  • Updated the calculators macro to conform to the new University calculator regulations. \allowcalculators now has an optional argument to specify the kinds of calculators permitted.

  • \permitcalculators has been added as a synonym for \allowcalculators.

  • Removed the \marks macro because it conflicts with a macro in e-TeX.

Version 2.0.2 (2002-08-22)

  • If you omitted any of the required title page macros (\examyear, \papernumber, \papertitle or \department), ouexam crashed when trying to report the error. Fixed.

  • Added the ability to specify “FY” (full-year) as a semester type in the \semester macro.

Version 2.0.1 (2002-04-30)

  • There was a bug in the definition of the macros for numbering sub-sub-questions that meant they were numbered as “(a)” instead of the correct “(i)”. Fixed.

  • When referencing sub-questions or sub-sub-questions, the entire question number was included (that is, “1(b)(iii)” instead of just “(iii)”). This made it difficult to sensibly reference these items, so the relevant macros have been changed to omit this prefixed information. References to questions now print as “1”, sub-questions as “(b)” and sub-sub-questions as “(iii)”. If this does not suit your requirements, change the \labelquestion, \labelsubquestion or \labelsubsubquestion macros.

Version 2.0 (2002-01-30)

A complete rewrite from scratch. This version is not backwards compatible with earlier versions! However, the class will detect attempts to use obsolete features.

  • Added draft and markingschedule class options.

  • Added checking for the correct number of marks.

  • Added support for summer school exams.

  • Fixed headers so that the page number is always centered.

  • Removed multichoice class option and all associated macros and environments.

  • Disabled twoside class option, as exam papers are always printed single-sided.

Version 1.2 (2000-04-14)

  • Added support for marking schedule information.

Version 1.1 (1999-04-20)

  • Added multichoice class option.

  • Added automatic calculation of marks totals for questions.

  • Added tracking of the number of questions in an exam.

  • The subquestions and subsubquestions environment are now disabled when the multichoice class option is specified.

  • Changed default font size to 12pt.

  • Removed dependence on calc and ifthen packages.

Version 1.0 (1999-04-15)

Initial release.