Last week I posted a LaTeX code fragment on Usenet (comp.text.tex) and asked for help in understanding just what it is doing. No one replied to my request.
The context is that I have a LaTeX file that is used to grade exams at an Australian University and the author gave me permission to modify it for my needs: doing pairwise comparisons to be tabulated by scanning the forms in an optical mark sensing reader (such as the ScanTron(R)). I understand the part of the preamble that sets up the page size and margins. Now I'm trying to understand the relationships among the code and the appearance of the form. PSTricks is used to draw the ovals in which one marks his choices with a No. 2 pencil, and the multido package is used to produce an answer line for each question. Unfortunately, I'm not sufficiently fluent in LaTeX to really understand what I read. This means I don't know how to modify it for my purposes. Ideally, I'd like to create a template that will produce a scannable form for a variable number of items; two columns per side and multiple sides or pages when necessary. I think that the "questions" will be on a separate sheet so that the scanned forms contain only the answers. Anyway, I need a tutor (or mentor, if you will) willing to teach me what the template is doing (and why it's doing that) so I can intelligently create the template I need. No one on the news group expressed any interest so I'm asking here if anyone will help -- off the list, of course, as it's not directly related to LyX. I have spent time in Kopka and Daly's "Guide to LaTeX, 4th Ed" and in TLC2. However, I still need a cluestick or two from someone fluent in LaTeX. FWIW, the world headquarters of TUG is here in Portland, a mere 15 miles from me, but I've not had any luck in contacting anyone there. :-) TIA, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
