From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \itemize[random] does not work
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:45:10 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0902271841110.6570@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090227T223758-608@post.gmane.org>
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Curious Learn wrote:
> I was not aware of this cool feature in Context. This could be very useful in
> making multiple choice tests. I have one question. Is there a simple way in
> which one can switch between itemized lists that are random and non-random? For
> example, if I have 40 multiple choice questions, each of which has the following
> form:
>
> Question Text
> \startitemize[random]
> \startitem first item \stopitem
> \startitem second item \stopitem
> \startitem third item \stopitem
> \startitem fourth item \stopitem
> \stopitemize
>
> If I want the PDF file that has the items in the order I entered them in (i.e.,
> not a random permutation); is it possible to do that in a way other than going
> and taking out the "random" from each itemize environment?
Use modes:
\defineitemgroup[choices]
\startmode[random]
\setupitemgroup[choices][1][random]
\nextrandom % to get rid of the randomize bug
\stopmode
\starttext
\startchoices[n]
\startitem 1 \stopitem
\startitem 2 \stopitem
\startitem 3 \stopitem
\startitem 4 \stopitem
\startitem 5 \stopitem
\stopchoices
\stoptext
Compile this file with "texexec --mode=random " to get random choices,
compile without --mode=... to get normal behaviour. If you want random all
the time and normal a few times, then change
\startmode[random]...\stopmode
to
\stopnotmode[nonrandom] .... \stopnotmode.
Then when you compile with texexec --mode=nonrandom you will not get
random choices, if you compile without --mode=... you will get random
answers.
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-27 10:57 Marcin Borkowski
2009-02-27 11:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-27 11:36 ` Marcin Borkowski
2009-02-27 11:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-27 21:22 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-02-27 22:45 ` Curious Learn
2009-02-27 23:45 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2009-02-28 11:08 ` Curious Learn
2009-02-28 11:14 ` batela
2009-03-01 9:29 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-01 18:46 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-01 22:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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