A Do-It-Yourself Series of Lessons
on Web Design, the Hyperref, Web
and Exerquiz Packages

Background: This series of lessons were originally prepared for a two-day workshop (six one-hour lectures) on LaTeX/PDF that I gave at the College of the Redwoods, April 30-May 1, 1999, at the invitation of David Arnold. They were revised for the workshop I gave at the 20th Annual Meeting of the TeX User's Group, August 15-16, 1999, in Vancouver, BC, CA. (Program and Preprints from that Conference are available, see the AcroTeX Web Site.)

Description: These "do-it-yourself" tutorials begin with a discussion of good Web Design and use of Color (the color package); then introduces the hyperref package with its large number of options; next up, the author proposes the web package as an example of a useful web design for pdf documents; and finally, the exerquiz package is surveyed, with examples.

File Listing:

• Supporting Macro Files
  • webplain.sty: A simple macro file that we use to set the page design
  • wsmacros.sty: Additional macros used in the lessons below.
  • AcroTeX eDucation Bundle: A collection of LaTeX packages for creating online documens, exercises and quizzes. See the manual of use, sample files, and demo files.
  • hyperref: Available from CTAN. (Use the search feature to search for the keyword "hyperref"; the distrubution is located in the directory tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyperref/).
  • xr.sty: A special verion of xr.sty what works with hyperref. This comes with the hyperref distribution under the name of xr-hyper.sty.
• The Lessons
  • ws11.tex: This file is argues the deficiencies of the standard article style; and the need to have a good screen design.
  • ws21.tex: Load the package webplain. This package sets the page layout for the screen.
  • ws22.tex: A discussion of color. See also wscol.tex for an illustration of using color in the tabular environment.
  • ws23.tex: An introduction to hyperref, a survey of some common options.
    Also, elementary hyperlinking.
  • ws31.tex: Jazzing up your hyperlinks, cross-document references, and url. Uses ws32.tex, compile first.
  • ws32.tex: A Target file for some of the other documents.
  • ws41.tex: Introducing the web style, and discussion of its features; also, how to create on-line exercises with the exerquiz package. (Which has since become the AcroTeX eDucation Bundle.)
  • ws51.tex: How to create short quizzes with/without solutions using the exerquiz package.
  • ws61.tex: How to create quizzes graded by JavaScript using the exerquiz package.
    

Download the Lessons and support files (AcroTeX Bundle and hyperref not included) can be downloaded in the zip file diytut.zip.

Please contact me at dpstory@uakron.edu should you encounter any problems, or have suggestions to make, or want to contribute a lesson!

Regards,

Now I simply must get back to work!     

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