This is the Manual for the Manyex exam preparation systam (version 0.5, Jun 15, 2010),
Copyright © 2006-2010 Walter García-Fontes
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Manyex is a tool for preparing exams and tests from a database of exercises with questions. It creates the exams in LaTeX so that you can process them with the Tex/Latex system.
To operate Manyex, you need a working TeX/LaTeX installation and a basic knowledge of this system.
In this version of Manyex, web form exams are prepared to work
with tth (//hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/).
Manyex selects randomly the exercises and permutes the questions, so that you can generate different exams from the same database of questions.
It provides several formats:
– Normal Latex exams, to print and distribute among the students.
– Web Form exams, these are written as separate files for each
exam, also in LaTeX, but to be processed by
tth (http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/),
a free tool to convert from
LaTeX to html.
– Answer files, both in normal format and in web format.
– Answer key file, just each exams with the correct answers if multiplechoice or true/false.
â\200\224 The Detailed Node Listing â\200\224
Introduction
The exercise database
The test description file
Exercise structure
LaTeX normal exam creation
LaTeX web form creation
The creation of answers
A complete example