Document Classes ⇒ Textbook Package/Style Recommendations

[LaTexLearner]

And one more question: What are the alternatives to exsheets?

i.e. Does exsheets include a lot of features that only professional page-layout experts need to know while a much simpler version for making exercises and solutions for ~14-year-olds exists elsewhere?

[cgnieder]

Can anybody recommend a simple, non-jargon-rich introduction to exsheets?

I don't think there is anything except the exsheets manual.

And one more question: What are the alternatives to exsheets?

See for example here http://www.ctan.org/topic/exercise

Regards

[cgnieder]

I am not very familiar with exsheets and i don't know all the bells and whistles.

The only thing I'd probably do different is this: I'd define

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\newcommand*\questionspace[1]{\PrintSolutionsF{\examspace{#1}}}

and use this inside of questions. This way if the document is printed with

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\SetupExSheets{solution/print = true}

the white space is not printed in addition to the solutions.

All the solutions, though, appeared below the all the exercises as if it were a separate section...

This is of course because of the call of \printsolutions at the end of the example. If you comment this or remove it there will be no solutions printed.

Regards

[LaTexLearner]

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}

\newlength{\ALT}
\setlength{\ALT}{0.5pt}
\newlength{\DLL}
\setlength{\DLL}{1.5cm}
\newcommand{\AS}[1][\DLL]{\rule{#1}{\ALT}}
\usepackage{exsheets}
\usepackage{tasks}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{grffile}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}

\section{The Purpose and Definition of Fractions}

\begin{question}
	What is the mathematical purpose of fractions? Illustrate your answer
	by describing and drawing a situation of sharing cakes that can be
	solved with whole numbers and a similar situation that requires
	fractions to solve.
	\examspace{3cm}
\end{question}
\begin{solution}%[print]
	\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{504px-Cake_quarters.svg.png}\par
	\url{https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cake_quarters.svg}
\end{solution}
\begin{question}
	Bill, Susan, and Michael purchase a 2\,m (\SI{2}{\meter}) candy rope. If they share it
	equally, how much candy rope will they each get? Use a diagram to
	support your answer.
\end{question}
\begin{solution}
	Each one gets \SI{.666666667}{m}.\par
	Each one gets \SI{2/3}{m}.
\end{solution}
\begin{question}
	What is a \emph{denominator} and what does it tell you about a fraction?
\end{question}
	\begin{solution}
Below line
\end{solution}
\begin{question}
	What is a \emph{numerator} and what does it tell you about a fraction?
\end{question}
\begin{solution}
Above line
\end{solution}
\begin{question}
	Write an equation with a fraction equal to a whole number. \(\AS =
	\AS\)
\end{question}
\begin{question}
	Write an approximate equation with a fraction that is almost equal to
	a whole number and that whole number.
		\AS \(\approx\) \AS\par
		\( \AS \approx \AS \)%Compare the spacing
\end{question}

\printsolutions
\end{document}

Dare I ask what all those other packages were for? i.e. tasks, url, grffile
siunitx

[Johannes_B]

Comment them out, see where it fails.

tasks, not needed but quite handy when dealing with exam sheets.
url, for printing the url.
grffile, for including the image which has two dots.
siunitx, for correct and consistent typesetting of values and units.

[cgnieder]

Dare I ask what all those other packages were for? i.e. tasks, url, grffile siunitx

tasks is for lists where the items can be arranged in columns but are numbered from left to right rather than from top to bottom. url mostly provides the macro \url for typesetting web adresses. siunitx is for consistent and typographically correct typesetting of numbers and units. grffile ex­tends the file name pro­cess­ing of the graphics package to sup­port a larger range of file names.

Details can be found in the manuals of the respective packages. You'll find them if you follow the links I provided or on your own computer by opening a command line and and texdoc followed by the package name and hit enter.

Regards