matching problem in LaTeX

[Alex Jordan]

If you have a matching problem (Runestone component), the LaTeX for that makes a simple tabular with two "l" columns, with horizontal rules between rows. Note that a cell in an "l" column does not line break.

See for example on page 113:

https://pretextbook.org/examples/sample-article/derivatives.pdf#page=113

In ORCCA, a matching problem I added has text that is just a bit too long and the tabular goes off into the margin. Also I feel that the horizontal rules are misleading. They imply that something in column 1 has an association with the parallel thing in column 2.

Would a multicols work better for this, with some kind of list environment in each column? Or a better question, what would look really good for this structure in print? (And maybe we can code it up in LaTeX.)

[Sean Fitzpatrick]

What about a two column environment, where the list on the left is numbered 1, 2, 3... and the list on the right is numbered A, B, C...?

Then a "solution" could be given as 1B, 2A, 3C...

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[Rob Beezer]

> And maybe we can code it up in LaTeX.

Which prompts me to remind everyone that a static version of a Runestone
component is *expressed in PreTeXt* for use in multiple conversions. There is
not a LaTeX version. Nor will there be.

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[Alex Jordan]

A sidebyside with two p's, each with a ul?

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[Rob Beezer]

That could work. How do you feel about the *solution* being tabular with
horizontal lines? They could be paragraph-cells to get word-wrapping.

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[Alex Jordan]

> That could work.  How do you feel about the *solution* being tabular with

> horizontal lines?  They could be paragraph-cells to get word-wrapping.

I've tried the following, where the lists are "ol" with the Alph and arabic markers hard-coded (Alph for premise, arabic for response).

For the solution, I don't love the tabular. I'm hacking things a bit through ORCCA PDF production (but trying to do so in a way I can stabilize to either a project-specific XSL file or to PTX itself). And I'm leaning toward making the solution look like:

Solution.  A. 4.  B. 3.  C. 1.  D. 2.  

But I might play with spacing and line breaks to make it more student-readable.

Taking any feedback that could lead to something that works for PTX itself.

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[Rob Beezer]

On 7/10/24 16:59, Alex Jordan wrote:
> I've tried the following, where the lists are "ol" with the Alph and arabic
> markers hard-coded (Alph for premise, arabic for response).

You said before:

> each with a ul

The items in a Runestone component do not have markers.

[Alex Jordan]

Right, "ul" was my first thought.  Then "ol" seems better.

I've looked at live and static examples, and I don't see an issue with the live RS component not having markers, but the static presentation does.

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[Rob Beezer]

Blind student works off the braille (from static) and says "I think B matches
with 4."

The class and the instructor are using the interactive version (as Andrew S
would have it!) and really don't know what the student is talking about.

Question: could the Runestone component have identical markers?