Kenward Vaughan wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:24:50PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
> > Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > >
> > > I use multiple choice questions in some of my exams which are graded by
> > > machine (scantron). The form is limited to 5 choices (A-E), but one can
> > > extend this by allowing choices such as AB, AC, or BCE (all the way out to
> > > ABCDE :).
> > >
> > > Is there any way to define such a sequence which would then get used when
> > > enumeration is chosen for my questions? (Yes, there are times when I have
> > > _many_ answers offered, much to my students' dismay. :(
> > >
> > > Currently I find myself defining tables to manage the issue.
> >
> > in preamble or in text in red
> >
> > \renewcommand\labelenumi{\Alph{enumi}}
> > \renewcommand\labelenumii{\Alph{enumi}\Alph{enumii}}
> > and so on ...
>
> Thanks, Herbert! I was sure there was no way to approach this, but your
> suggestion gets really close. I found that including the second line
> (slightly modified) at the end of the point where I want this to happen
> nearly gives the desired results. Here's the result:
>
> 1. test 1
> (a) ans 1
> (b) ans 2
> (c) ans 3
> (d) ans 4
> (e) ans 5\renewcommand\labelenumii{(\alph{enumi}\alph{enumii})}
> (f) ans 6
> (g) ans 7
play araound with the counters:
\setcounter{enumii}{1}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{(\alph{enumi}\alph{enumii})}
it's nearly the same for the counter enumiii and so on.
Herbert
