General ⇒ Answering lines for an exam

[adalbert]

Hi everyone,
I'm actually creating an exam but now I've some questions in it, where the students have to answer with one or two sentences. For this, I'd like to have right after my question a few empty lines but they should be underlined so that the student's can write their answers on this lines.

Unfortunately I can't find a way to do it without using tables or create a line as a graphic

Would be great if someone can help me on this.

Kind regards,
Adalbert

[gmedina]

Hi,

you could use \hrulefill as the following example suggests. To increase the vertical space between consecutive lines, you can use \vspace*:

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

\noindent\hrulefill

\noindent\hrulefill\vspace*{2em}

\noindent\hrulefill

\end{document}

Edit: perhaps the exam class could be or interest to you.

[adalbert]

Hi gmedina,
thanks very much, this is exactly what I was looking for

PS: I'm already using the exam class but afaik there's no such thing like an answering line.

Regards,
Adalbert

[gmedina]

Hi Adalbert,

...PS: I'm already using the exam class but afaik there's no such thing like an answering line...

Well, the exam class provides the \fillwithlines command:

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\documentclass{exam}

\begin{document}

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

\fillwithlines{4in}

\end{document}

Refer to the package documentation (7.2 Printing lined space for answers, pp. 42ff)