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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Also you can use the enumitem package to alter the “enumerate” environment so that you can type:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>\begin{enumerate}[label={\alph*)}]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>\item choice 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>\item choice 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>\item choice 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>\end{enumerate }<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rather than manually labelling the choices.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> texhax-bounces@tug.org [mailto:texhax-bounces@tug.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Cong Ding<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 26, 2010 7:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> Vafa Khalighi<br><b>Cc:</b> texhax@tug.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [texhax] multiplechoice in LaTeX<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>just do it<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 03:11, Vafa Khalighi <<a href="mailto:vafakhlgh@gmail.com">vafakhlgh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I want to define a macro :<br><br>\newcommand\answer[4]{.....}<br><br>If the length of all arguments 1 to 4 is less than 0.25\textwidth, then I want to typeset that as<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\begin{multicols}{4}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\begin{itemize}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[a)] #1<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[b)] #2<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[c)] #3<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[d)] #4<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\end{itemize}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\end{multicols}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>if the length of one of the arguments from 1 to 4 is less than 0.5\textwidth but greater than 0.25\textwidth provided the length of no arguments from 1 to 4 is greater than 0.5\textwidth, then I want to typeset this as:<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\begin{multicols}{2}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\begin{itemize}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[a)] #1<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[b)] #2<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[c)] #3<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[d)] #4<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\end{itemize}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\end{multicols}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>and finally if the length of any arguments from 1 to 4 is bigger than \textwidth, then I just want to typeset this as:<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\begin{itemize}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[a)] #1<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[b)] #2<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[c)] #3<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[d)] #4<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\end{itemize}<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>How could I do this?<br><br>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\begin{multicols}{1}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\begin{itemize}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[a)] #1<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[b)] #2<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[c)] #3<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\item[d)] #4<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\end{itemize}<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>\end{multicols}<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" target="_blank">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>Mailing list archives: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/" 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