History (11/24/05) Minor upload, new languages for Web and Exerquiz, and significant additions to the JavaScript library of functions. (03/05/05) Exerquiz v6.03c, include support for catalan and \bChoices and \eChoices. (02/05/05) Uploaded a new version of Exerquiz to support the eqExam package. (06/28/04) Minor changes to Exerquiz, added the setSupport option for dljslib. (05/13/04) Minor changes to \CorrAnsButon. (04/22/04) Many minor changes. Major change: the mathGrp environment, now works as I originally envisioned it, for both the quiz and shortquiz environments. (03/24/04) Uploaded a new version of Exerquiz and eForms packages. Additions to Exerquiz include a progressive style question for quizzes and a grouped environment for math fill-in questions for quizzes. I've separated the eForms support from Exerquiz so that now it is a stand-alone package that is called by eForms. (12/31/03) Uploaded revised versions of Exerquiz and dljslib. Numerous little changes were made to Web (see webeqman.pdf or eqchange.txt). Additions to the dljslib were made. Many thanks to Ross Moore and to Frances Griffin. (12/06/03) Uploaded a new version of eq2db which includes two new options eqText and tagged. The eqText option (along with accompanying ASP eqText.asp) saves quiz data to a tab-delimited text file on the server. When the tagged option is used, quiz data is saved as a XML-type string. (08/26/03) Uploaded a new version of eq2db which includes a new eqEmail option. Meant to be used with eqEmail.asp - also included-, with this option, quiz results are eMailed to the instructor. (08/03/03) Uploaded new version of Web, Exerquiz, eq2db. Exerquiz now comes with complete eForm support; eq2db makes it easy to submit quizzes to a server-side script. Language localications extended to finnish. (10/19/02) Uploaded a new version of Web which correctly handles overlays when dvipdfm is used to produce PDF. It was necessary to redefine one of the macros in eso-pic to work with dvipdfm. (10/09/02) Uploaded the AcroTeX eDucation Bundle. Web Package now does backgrounds and graphics overlays. The insdljs package has two new environments execJS and defineJS. (02/25/02) Uploaded the "AcroTeX eDucation Bundle", including (Exerquiz v4.0). The insdljs package now contains JavaScript functions, under the option of equations, that enable Exerquiz to process questions in which equations are expected. (02/09/02) Uploaded the "AcroTeX eDucation Bundle", a collection of LaTeX packages. (Web v2.0, Exerquiz v3.0c, insdljs, and dljslib) (04/11/01) Uploaded v2.0 for Web and Exerquiz. User defined screen designs, objective style questions. Added an optional argument to the solutions environment within the exercise environment. The value of the paramters is a vertical skip. If the nosolutions option is in effect, the vertical skip is set after the question. This may be useful for educator who use exerquiz to create tests. The optional skip value can be used to leave space for the students to solve the problem. Later, the solutionsafter option can be used, and any vertical space is replaced by the solution to the exercise. (12/02/00) Uploaded v1.37 of Exerquiz. Added the russian language option, due to Sergei V. Znamenskii. Also added a feature to the quiz environment; you can now choose between links and a form button for the Begin Quiz and End Quiz. Finally, added the ability to change the color of the checkmarks and crossmarks when correcting quizzes. (09/02/00) Uploaded v1.35 of Exerquiz and Web v1.32. Added the italian language, and fixed a bug on marking quizzes. (05/09/00) Uploaded v1.34 of Exerquiz. Added multipart exercise format (both list and tabular). Added a proofing option for Exerquiz. With is option, a mark appears beside the correct answer in the shortquiz and quiz environments; this makes it easy to proof read the quizzes, and check for errors in coding the correct answer. (May also be use a sort of an `answer key'.) (04/16/00) Uploaded v1.33 of Exerquiz. Added a hidden option to the exercise environment, and a nohiddensolutions package option to override the local hidden switch. Updated manual to reflect these changes. (03/13/00) Uploaded v1.31. In the Web package, included a new option called latexlayout. When this option is used, the defaulty page layout parameters for article class are used. (Meant to be used in combination with forpaper.) For Exerquiz package, the new feature is exercises with parts. You can now define a multipart exercise which have separate links to the solution to each part. (02/08/00) Uploaded v1.30 with spanish option. (02/03/00) Uploaded v1.30 with norsk and dutch options. (01/25/00) Uploaded v1.30 of Web and Exerquiz. Web package: Major addition is a language option, currently french and german. A lot of work was done to give the user the ability to customize most all features of the Web and Exerquiz packages. Othere changes: the bookmarks have the same structure as the document (bullets at the \subsubsection level), my thanks to Heiko Oberdiek for showing me a better way of creating this effect; the latextoc also refects the same structure, bullets at the \subsubsection level; some changes were made to make Web and Exerquiz compatible with David Wilson's Utopia PDF Presentation Bundle. There is a tight option to make the list environments a little "tighter". Exerquiz package: There is new option in Exerquiz called solutionsafter: solutions to exercises and quizzes can be written immediately after the question. May be useful for creating an "Example" environment, or a solution key. (10/03/99) Uploaded v1.21 of exerquiz.sty. Beginning with pdftex version 0.14, some primitives have been renamed. v1.21 of exerquiz should now work correctly with pdftex for versions < .14 and > .14 (I hope). (08/25/99) Uploaded v1.20 of each package. Most changes are in the Exerquiz package. They are: (1) quizzes created by the quiz environment can now be corrected using JavaScript; a system of relabeling all environments is in place; all documentation has been updated; sample files webeqtst.tex has been updated to reflect the new features of the quiz environment; new sample files hw01.tex and qz01.tex are provided. (06/17/99) Uploaded v1.1 of each package. These versions have a pdftex option. (05/05/99) Uploaded v1.0 of each package. (05/06/99) v1.01. Added options latextoc, nodirectory, forpaper. Corrected some vertical spacing problems. Updated documentation webeqman.pdf and p_webeqman.pdf.
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