ouexam document class v2.3.2, 9 October 2014
Copyright 1999–2014 Nigel Stanger and University of Otago
This LaTeX2ε document class enables the production of University of Otago formatted examination papers. It handles all the fiddly layout requirements (such as printing “TURN OVER” at the bottom of every page except the last), and also ensures that the actual number of marks for questions in the examination add up to the expected number of marks.
You will need the verbatim
, fontenc
, textcomp
and lmodern
packages in order to use ouexam
. These should all come standard with most TeX installations. To build the documentation and example files, you will need graphicx
, hyperref
, at least version 1.1 of the listings
package, and the pdfjam
tool.
To install the easy way:
1 Unpack the distribution archive and cd
to the distribution directory.
2 make
3 make install TEXMF_INSTALL=/path/to/texmf
. /path/to/texmf
should be the root of your preferred texmf tree (e.g., /usr/share/texmf
). You may need to do this as root depending on which texmf tree you are installing into. You can also define TEXMF_INSTALL
as an environment variable then simply type make install.
To install manually, unpack the distribution archive, cd to the distribution directory, and do the following (now you know why there’s a Makefile ☺).
% latex ouexam.ins % pdflatex example1.tex % pdflatex example1.tex % pdfjam --outfile eg1-1.pdf example1.pdf 1 % pdfjam --outfile eg1-2.pdf example1.pdf 2 % pdfjam --outfile eg1-3.pdf example1.pdf 3 % pdflatex example2.tex % pdflatex example2.tex % pdfjam --outfile eg2-1.pdf example2.pdf 1 % pdfjam --outfile eg2-2.pdf example2.pdf 2 % pdfjam --outfile eg2-3.pdf example2.pdf 3 % pdfjam --outfile eg2-4.pdf example2.pdf 4 % pdflatex ouexam.dtx % pdflatex ouexam.dtx % pdflatex ouexam.dtx
Put ouexam.cls
in /path/to/texmf/tex/latex/ouexam
.
Put eg*.pdf
, ouexam.pdf
, ouexam.dtx
, ouexam.ins
, HISTORY
, MANIFEST
, README
and TODO
in /path/to/texmf/doc/latex/ouexam
.
Put Create*.pdf
, example*.tex
, example*.pdf
and lstlang0.sty
in /path/to/texmf/doc/latex/ouexam/example
.
You can also build the examples using GUI tools such as TeXMaker, TeXShop, etc. (but see the FAQ below).
The number of marks for my questions are not appearing at the end of the line even though there is plenty of room for them to fit.
You probably have a blank line between the end of your question text and the \end{question}
macro that actually generates the number of marks. The line break gets processed by TeX before the number of marks is generated and effectively generates a new paragraph. Until I figure out how to stop this from happening, the workaround is to not leave blank lines between the end of the question text and the \end{question}
.
Why can’t I build content.tex
? content.tex
is an include file for both example1.tex
and example2.tex
. It doesn’t have a \documentclass
and you therefore can’t pdflatex
it! The only input files you should be building are example1.tex
and example2.tex
.