Document Classes ⇒ Managing exercises with solutions in textbooks

[bjornarl]

Hi to you all,

I am writing a college math textbook using the memoir class. As with all textbooks there are lots of exercises scattered throughout, with solutions in the back. I want LaTeX to handle this for me, and I want to be able to write something like this:

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\begin{exercise)
< the text of the exercise, maybe with parts a), b),...>
\begin{solution}
< solution text >
\end{solution}
\end{exercise}

I want LaTeX to automatically number the exercises and the corresponding solutions, printing the exercise text where it appears, and the solution(numbered correspondingly) in an appendix in the back.

My point is to be able to write the exercise together with its solution at the same point in my input file and have LaTeX separate them for me and place the solution text somewhere else. Is this at all possible?

Best regards,
Bjørnar Larssen

[nlct]

Hi,

I don't know if this is quite what you want, but you can use the probsoln package to define the exercises and solutions. You'll need the latest version (v3.0) if you want the solutions in a separate place. You'll need something else to handle the actual numbering. Check the sample file sample5.tex that comes with the package. (It should be in the doc/latex/probsoln/samples/ directory of your TEXMF tree.)

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[bjornarl]

Thanks for your reply. I will look into it.

Bjørnar

[hindmost]

Wouldn't it be easier to use multiple source files and then including the question subfiles and answer subfiles at the appropriate points? It sounds like a job for make rather than pure LaTeX