On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:53:35 -0400
Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I've created module quizzes for my Troubleshooting Course. I'd like
to create
a document containing the quiz questions, answers and a disertation
on why
the correct answer is correct. This document would be given to
course
instructors.
As I envision it, this would be a two column affair, with the left
column
being the question, the multiple choices, and the correct answer.
The right
column would have a disertation on why the correct answer is correct
and
possibly why the wrong answers are wrong.
This would be trivial to do on a web page, but for professional
level work
like this I'd prefer it be well typeset with LyX/LaTeX, and
converted to PDF.
It would not be enough to be a 2 column book, because the
disertation must be
to the right of the question, always. If one is longer than the
other, the
shorter one would be vertically spaced to keep disertations together
with
their questions, choices and answers. I'd also like some sort of
lines or
shading to separate question/disertation pairs.
I spoze the easiest way to do it would be a longtable, but tables in
LyX are
just soooo ugly, I'm hoping there's a better way.
By the way, it would be acceptable to me to have this book be
landscape in
order to give more horizontal room for the two columns. However, the
final
PDF must easily print correctly on a printer, without any special
scripts or
machinations with Acroread.
Steve,
The simplest solution would be to use margin notes for the
explanation. The width of the space for margin notes can be changed
easily (see Figure 1 of the fancyhdr docs), and the smaller font would
give you the visual separation you are wanting to use lines or shading
to accomplish.
Les
