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% the EXSHEETS package
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%   Yet another package for the creation of exercise sheets
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% Clemens Niederberger
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% Copyright 2011-2013 Clemens Niederberger
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% The exsheets package consists of the files
%  - exsheets.sty, exsheets_headings.def, exsheets_headings.cfg,
%    exsheets_configurations.cfg,
%  - exsheets_en.tex, exsheets_en.pdf,
%  - README
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% If you have any ideas, questions, suggestions or bugs to report, please
% feel free to contact me.
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%
% if you want to compile this documentation you'll need the document class
% `cnpkgdoc' which you can get here:
%    https://bitbucket.org/cgnieder/cnpkgdoc/
% the class is licensed LPPL 1.3 or later
%
% use `xelatex' and `biber' for compilation
%
\documentclass[DIV10,toc=index,toc=bib,numbers=noendperiod]{cnpkgdoc}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% document layout and typographic features
\docsetup{
  pkg      = {[load-headings,load-tasks]exsheets} ,
  url      = {https://bitbucket.org/cgnieder/exsheets/} ,
  title    = the ExSheets bundle ,
  subtitle = {the packages \ExSheets, \Tasks, \translations and \cntformats\\
    \emph{or}\\
    Yet another package for the creation of exercise sheets and exams.} ,
  name     = ExSheets ,
  language = en ,
  modules  = true ,
  code-box = {
    backgroundcolor  = gray!7!white ,
    skipbelow        = .6\baselineskip plus .5ex minus .5ex ,
    skipabove        = .6\baselineskip plus .5ex minus .5ex ,
    innerleftmargin  = 1.5em ,
    innerrightmargin = 2.5em
  } ,
  gobble   = 1
}
\makeatletter
\edef\trnsltversion{\@trnslt@version}
\edef\cntfmtsversion{\@cntfmts@version}
\edef\tasksversion{v\@tasks@version}
\makeatother
\usepackage{libertinehologopatch}
\cnpkgusecolorscheme{friendly}

\usepackage[biblatex]{embrac}[2012/06/29]
  \ChangeEmph{[}[,.02em]{]}[.055em,-.08em]
  \ChangeEmph{(}[-.01em,.04em]{)}[.04em,-.05em]
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[multiple]{fnpct}

\renewcommand*\othersectionlevelsformat[3]{\textcolor{main}{#3\autodot}\enskip}
\renewcommand*\partformat{\textcolor{main}{\partname~\thepart\autodot}}

\pagestyle{headings}

\setcapindent{1.5em}
\setkomafont{caption}{\normalfont\footnotesize\sffamily}
\setkomafont{captionlabel}{\normalfont\footnotesize\sffamily\scshape}

\usepackage{booktabs,array,ragged2e}

% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% code examples
% ExSheets:
\addcmds{
  acs, addpoints,
  blank, bigstar, bottomrule,
  checkedchoicebox, choice, choicebox, citetitle, cmd, color, correct,
  DebugExSheets, DeclareInstance, DeclareQuestionClass, DeclareQuestionProperty,
    DeclareTemplateInterface,
  endspacing, examspace, ForEachQuestion,
  GetQuestionProperty, grade,
  includequestions, iflastquestion,
  lastvariant, midrule, NewQuSolPair, numberofquestions,
  points, PrintIfIncludeActiveF, PrintIfIncludeActiveT, PrintIfIncludeActiveTF,
    printsolutions, PrintSolutionsF, PrintSolutionsTF, PrintSolutionsT,
  questionsincludedlast, QuestionNumber, RenewQuSolPair, rightarrow,
  s, sample, setlength, SetQuestionProperties, SetupExSheets, SetVariations,
    spacing, square, sumpoints,
  tabcolsep, textcite, textcolor, toprule, totalpoints,
  variant, vary
}

% translations:
\newcommand*\translations{{\scshape\textcolor{main}{translations}}\xspace}
\addcmds{
  cuisine,
  DeclareDictTranslation, DeclareLanguage, DeclareLanguageAlias,
    DeclareLanguageDialect, DeclareTranslation,
  GetTranslation, GetTranslationFor,
  kitchen,
  LoadDictionary, LoadDictionaryFor,
  NewTranslation,
  ProvideDictionaryFor,
  RenewTranslation,
  SaveTranslation, SaveTranslationFor, selectlanguage
}

% cntformats:
\newcommand*\cntformats{{\scshape\textcolor{main}{cntformats}}\xspace}
\addcmds{
  @cntfmts@parsed@pattern, AddCounterPattern, eSaveCounterPattern,
  NewCounterPattern, ReadCounterFrom, ReadCounterPattern,
  ReadCounterPatternFrom, SaveCounterPattern, tmpa, tmpb
}

% tasks:
\newcommand*\Tasks{{\scshape\textcolor{main}{tasks}}\xspace}
\addcmds{
  leftthumbsup, NewTasks, settasks, task
}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% other packages, bibliography, index
\usepackage{xcoffins,wasysym,enumitem,booktabs,siunitx}
\usepackage[accsupp]{acro}
\DeclareAcronym{id}{
  short     = id ,
  long      = Identifier ,
  format    = \scshape ,
  pdfstring = ID ,
  accsupp   = ID
}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.ist}
 heading_prefix "{\\bfseries "
 heading_suffix "\\hfil}\\nopagebreak\n"
 headings_flag  1
 delim_0 "\\dotfill\\hyperpage{"
 delim_1 "\\dotfill\\hyperpage{"
 delim_2 "\\dotfill\\hyperpage{"
 delim_r "}\\textendash\\hyperpage{"
 delim_t "}"
 suffix_2p "\\nohyperpage{\\,f.}"
 suffix_3p "\\nohyperpage{\\,ff.}"
\end{filecontents*}
\indexsetup{othercode=\footnotesize}
\makeindex[options={-s \jobname.ist},intoc,columns=3]

\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@package{answers,
  title      = {answers},
  author     = {Mike Piff},
  maintainer = {Joseph Wright},
  date       = {2010-10-11},
  version    = {2.13},
  url        = {http://www.ctan.org/pkg/answers/}
}
@package{enumitem,
  title      = {enumitem},
  author     = {Javier Bezos},
  date       = {2011-09-28},
  version    = {3.5.2},
  url        = {http://www.ctan.org/pkg/enumitem/}
}
@package{exam,
  title      = {exam},
  author     = {Philip Hirschhorn},
  date       = {2011-05-22},
  version    = {2.4},
  url        = {http://www.ctan.org/pkg/exam/}
}
@package{examdesign,
  title      = {examdesign},
  author     = {Jason Alexander},
  date       = {2001-03-26},
  version    = {1.1},
  url        = {http://www.ctan.org/pkg/examdesign/}
}
@package{exercise,
  title      = {exercise},
  author     = {Paul Pichaureau},
  date       = {2012-05-08},
  version    = {1.58},
  url        = {http://www.ctan.org/pkg/answers/}
}
@package{multienum,
  title      = {multienum},
  author     = {Dennis Kletzing},
  date       = {2005-05-19},
  version    = {n.n.},
  url        = {http://www.ctan.org/pkg/multienum/}
}
@package{probsoln,
  title      = {probsoln},
  author     = {Nicola L. C. Talbot},
  date       = {2011-12-10},
  version    = {3.02},
  url        = {http://www.ctan.org/pkg/probsolns/}
}
\end{filecontents}

% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% example definitions that have to be done in the preamble:
\DeclareQuestionClass{difficulty}{difficulties}
\DeclareQuestionProperty{notes}
\DeclareQuestionProperty{reference}
\DeclareQuestionProperty{topic}

\DeclareRelGrades{
  1     = 1 ,
  {1,5} = .9167 ,
  2     = .8333 ,
  {2,5} = .75 ,
  3     = .6667 ,
  {3,5} = .5833 ,
  4     = .5
}

\usepackage{amssymb}
\let\checkmark\relax
\usepackage{dingbat}

\NewQuSolPair
  {question*}[name=\protect\llap{$\bigstar$\space}Bonus Question]
  {solution*}[name=\protect\llap{$\bigstar$\space}Solution]

\NewTasks[style=multiplechoice]{choices}[\choice](3)
\newcommand*\correct{\PrintSolutionsTF{\checkedchoicebox}{\choicebox}}

\DeclareTranslation{English}{Kueche}{kitchen}
\DeclareTranslation{German}{Kueche}{K\"uche}
\DeclareTranslation{Spanish}{Kueche}{cocina}
\DeclareTranslation{French}{Kueche}{cuisine}
\DeclareTranslation{English}{foo}{foo}
\DeclareTranslation{British}{foo}{bar}

\usepackage{alphalph}
\NewPatternFormat{aa}{\alphalph}
\NewCounterPattern{testa}{ta}

% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% custom commands
\newcommand*\Default[1]{%
  \hfill\llap
    {%
      \ifblank{#1}%
        {(initially~empty)}%
        {Default:~\code{#1}}%
    }%
  \newline
}
\newcommand*\required{\hfill\llap{required}\newline}
\newcommand*\optional{\hfill\llap{optional}\newline}

\newcommand*\nooption[2]{\item[\code{\textcolor{key}{#1} = #2}] \cnpkgdocarrow\ }

\newcommand*\unexpsign{$\RHD$}
\newcommand*\expsign{\textcolor{red}{$\rhd$}}
\renewcommand*\cnpkgdoctriangle{\unexpsign}
\newcommand*\expandable{%
  \def\cnpkgdoctriangle{%
    \expsign
    \gdef\cnpkgdoctriangle{\unexpsign}}}

\usepackage{marginnote}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*\sinceversion[1]{%
  \@bsphack
  \marginnote{%
    \footnotesize\sffamily\RaggedRight
    \textcolor{black!75}{Introduced in version~#1}}%
  \@esphack}
\newcommand*\changedversion[1]{%
  \@bsphack
  \marginnote{%
    \footnotesize\sffamily\RaggedRight
    \textcolor{black!75}{Changed in version~#1}}%
  \@esphack}
\makeatother

\pdfstringdefDisableCommands{\def\llap#1{#1\space}\def\bigstar{*}}

% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% title page
\TitlePicture{%
  \parbox{.8\linewidth}{%
    \ExSheets provides means to create exercises or questions and their
    corresponding solutions. The questions can be divided into classes and can
    be printed selectively. Meta-data to questions can be added and recovered.
    \par
    The solutions may be printed where they are, can be collected and printed at
    a later point in the document alltogether or section-wise or selectively by
    \acs{id}.\par
    \ExSheets provides a comprehensive interface for styling the headings of
    questions and solutions.}}

\begin{document}

\part{Preliminary}\secidx{Preliminary}
\section{Licence and Requirements}
\secidx[Licence]{Preliminary}\secidx[Requirements]{Preliminary}
\ExSheets is placed under the terms of the \LaTeX{} Project Public License,
version 1.3 or later (\url{http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt}).
It has the status ``maintained.''

\ExSheets loads and needs the following packages: \paket*{l3kernel},
\paket{xparse}, \paket{xtemplate}, \paket{l3sort}, \paket{l3keys2e},
\paket{xcolor}, \paket{ulem}, \paket{etoolbox}, \paket{environ}, and
\paket{pgfcore}. \ExSheets calls \cmd{normalem} (from the \paket{ulem} package).

\section{Motivation}\secidx[Motivation]{Preliminary}
There are already quite a number of packages that allow the creation of exercise
sheets or written exams. Just to name the most common ones: \paket{exam}~\cite{exam},
\paket{examdesign}~\cite{examdesign}, \paket{exercise}~\cite{exercise},
\paket{probsoln}~\cite{probsoln}, \paket{answers}~\cite{answers} (and
\href{http://www.ctan.org/characterization/primary/document-types/exams-exercise-sets-and-answers/}{many more}).

One thing I missed in all packages that I've tried out\footnote{Well, probably I
didn't try hard enough\ldots} was a high flexibility in choosing which questions
and solutions should be printed, where which solutions should be printed and so
on, combined with the possibility to assign questions to different classes so one
could for example create two versions of an exam out of the box. And --~I can't
get enough~-- I also want to be able to use/design different layouts for questions
additional to a standard section-like format. All these points are realized in
\ExSheets.

Additionally one should be able to assign some sort of meta-data to questions
that of course should be easily reusable. How this can be done is explained
in section~\ref{sec:additional_info}.

Then there is --~at least in Germany~-- the habit of having lists of exercises
aligned in columns but counting from the left to the right instead from up to
down. \ExSheets provides a possibility for that (see part~\ref{part:tasks}).
I am not quite content with it as it works now, though\footnote{There are still
other possibilities, for example take a look here:
\url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67966/enumerate-in-multicols} or at
the \paket*{multienum} package~\cite{multienum}.}.

On the other hand \ExSheets doesn't --~and probably won't~-- offer a real
possibility for creating multiple choice questions. As a fact it doesn't provide
many (if any) means to specify the \emph{type} of question or the structure. If
these are your needs take a look at \paket{examdesign}, for example. Or exploit
the possibilities \paket{enumitem}~\cite{enumitem} gives you.

I had the idea for this package in 2008. Back then my \TeX\ skills were by far
not good enough to write it. Actually, even today I wouldn't have been able to
realize it without all the l3 packages like \paket*{l3kernel} and \paket*{l3packages}.
I actively began to develop \ExSheets in spring 2011 but it wasn't until now
(September 2012) that I consider it stable enough for wider usage. At the time
of writing (\today) there still are probably lots of rough edges let alone bugs
so I am very interested in all kinds of feedback.

\section{Additional Packages}
\ExSheets actually bundles four packages: \ExSheets, \Tasks, \translations and
\cntformats. \Tasks is described in part~\ref{part:tasks}, \translations is
described in part~\ref{part:translations} and \cntformats in part~\ref{part:cntformats}.
These packages provide functionality that is used by \ExSheets. They can, however,
be used independently from \ExSheets.

The packages \translations and \cntformats both aren't really useful on a
user-level but maybe for package writers.

\section{Installation}\secidx[Installation]{Preliminary}
If you install \ExSheets manually beware to put the files
\begin{itemize}
 \item[]\verb+exsheets_headings.def+
 \item[]\verb+exsheets_headings.cfg+
\end{itemize}
in the same directory as the \code{exsheets.sty} file\footnote{That is, a directory
like \code{texmf-local/tex/latex/exsheets}, probably}. You \emph{can} install the
other packages, \Tasks, \translations and \cntformats, in different locations but
since they belong to \ExSheets they probably should be placed in the same directory.

You should put the file \code{tasks.cfg} in the same directory as the \code{tasks.sty}
file.

As with every manual package installation you need to make sure to put the files
in a directory where \TeX\ can find them and afterwards update the database.

\section{News}
With version~0.7 there has been a potentially breaking change: the \code{tasks}
environment previously provided by \ExSheets has been extracted into a package
of its own. This does not change any syntax \emph{per se}. However, if you used
custom settings then you'll probably run into some problems. The options for the
environment are no longer set with \cmd{SetupExSheets} but with \cmd{settasks}.
Also the object that is used for the list template and its instances has been
renamed from \code{exsheets-tasks} into \code{tasks}.

What's probably even more of a breaking change is a syntax difference of the
\code{tasks} environment: the optional argument for the number of columns is
\emph{no longer set in braces but parentheses}. This is deliberate as it
reflects the optional nature of the argument better and is consistent with the
syntax of \cmd{NewTasks}, too.

Additionally the labels of the list got an additional offset of \code{1ex} from
the items which will lead to slightly different output. In some cases this might
actually lead to the most annoying changes. In this case say
\cmd{settasks}{label-offset=0pt} which should cure things again.

I am very sorry for any inconvenience! I am trying to keep such changes as minimal
and rare as possibly. However, it is not always avoidable when a package is new
and still a child. It will grow up eventually.
\secidx*{Preliminary}

\part{The \ExSheets package}\label{part:exsheets}\secidx{\ExSheets}[ExSheets]
\section{Setup}\secidx{Setup}
The \ExSheets package has three different types of options, kind of. The first
type are the classic package options which are used when you load \ExSheets:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \usepackage[<options>]{exsheets}
\end{beispiel}
These options are described in section~\ref{sec:options}.

The second type are options that belong to a specific environment or command.
These options are either used directly with the environment/command
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \begin{env}[<options>]
  ...
 \end{env}
\end{beispiel}
or can be set with the setup command:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{SetupExSheets}[<module>]{<options>}
\end{beschreibung}
The options of the second type all belong to \textcolor{module}{\code{modules}}.
Let's say you want to specify some options of the \code{question} environment.
You can then say the following:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \SetupExSheets[question]{option1,option2=value2}
 % or:
 \SetupExSheets{question/option1,question/option2=value2}
\end{beispiel}
The \textcolor{module}{\code{module}} an option belongs to is written in the left
margin next to the when the option is described.

The third type aren't options at all, actually. However, thanks to the great
\paket{xtemplate} package you are able to define your own instances of some of
the objects used by \ExSheets. This is explained in a little more detail in
part~\ref{part:style} on page~\pageref{part:style}\,ff.
\secidx*{Setup}

\section{Package Options}\label{sec:options}\secidx{Package Options}
The package \ExSheets has some options, namely the following ones:
\begin{beschreibung}
 %% color
 \Option{color}{<colour>}\Default{exsheetsblue}
   A custom colour that is used in certain but very rare circumstances.
 %% counter-format
 \Option{counter-format}{<counter-format>}\Default{qu.}
   Formatting of the counter of the questions. This option takes a special kind
   of string that is described in section~\ref{ssec:counter}.
 \Option{counter-within}{<counter>}\Default{}
   Resets the \code{question} counter with every step of \code{<counter>}.
 %% auto-label
 \Option{auto-label}{\default{true}|false}\Default{false}
   If set to true \ExSheets will automatically place a \cmd*{label}{qu:<id>}
   for each question. It will also create the question properties \code{ref}
   and \code{pageref}, see section~\ref{sec:additional_info} for more on this.
 %% headings
 \Option{headings}{<instance>}\Default{block}
   Choose the style of the questions' and solutions' headings. There are two
   predefined styles: \code{block} and \code{runin}.
 %% headings-format
 \Option{headings-format}{<code>}\Default{\cmd{normalsize}\cmd{bfseries}}
   This code is placed immediately before the headings of the questions and
   solutions.
 %% load-headings
 \Option{load-headings}{\default{true}|false}\Default{false}
   Loads additional styles for the headings. More on this is described in
   section~\ref{sec:exsheets-headings}.
 %% load-tasks
 \Option{load-tasks}{\default{true}|false}\Default{false}
   Loads additional styles for the \code{tasks} environment. See part~\ref{part:tasks}.
 %% totoc
 \Option{totoc}{\default{true}|false}\Default{false}
   This option adds the questions and solutions with their names and numbers to
   the table of contents.
 %% questions-totoc
 \Option{questions-totoc}{\default{true}|false}\Default{false}
   This option adds the questions with their names and numbers to the table of
   contents.
 %% solutions-totoc
 \Option{solutions-totoc}{\default{true}|false}\Default{false}
   This option adds the solutions with their names and numbers to the table of
   contents.
 %% toc-level
 \Option{toc-level}{<toc level>}\Default{subsection}
   This option sets the level in which questions and solutions should appear in
   the table of contents.
 %% questions-toc-level
 \Option{questions-toc-level}{<toc level>}\Default{subsection}
   This option sets the level in which questions should appear in the table of
   contents.
 %% solutions-toc-level
 \Option{solutions-toc-level}{<toc level>}\Default{subsection}
   This option sets the level in which solutions should appear in the table of
   contents.
 %% use-ref
 \Option{use-ref}{\default{true}|false}\Default{false}
   enable referencing to sections and chapters in a way that the references can
   be used with \cmd{printsolutions}, see section~\ref{sssec:print_specific_section}
   for details.
\end{beschreibung}
The \code{toc} options are demonstrated with section~\ref{sec:solutions:list} and
the solutions printed there being listed in the table of contents.
\secidx*{Package Options}

\section{Create Questions/Exercises and their Solutions}
Now, let's start with the most important part: the questions and (possibly) their
respective solutions.
\subsection{The \code{question} Environment}\label{ssec:questions}
Questions are written inside the \code{question} environment:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Umg{question}[<options>]{\unskip\ma{<points>} ... }
\end{beschreibung}
\begin{beispiel}
 \begin{question}
  This is our very first very difficult to solve question!
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}
As you can see a heading is automatically created and the question is numbered.
You can of course change both the numbering and the naming, but more on that later.

The \code{question} environment takes an optional argument \ma{<points>} that can
be used to assign points to the question (as is common in written exams):
\begin{beispiel}
 \begin{question}{3}
  This is our first difficult question that is worth 3 points!
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}
These points are saved internally (see section~\ref{sec:points} for reasons why)
and are written to the right margin next to the question heading in the default
setting.

You can also assign bonus points by inserting \code{<point>+<bonus points>} as
argument.
\begin{beispiel}
 \begin{question}{1+1}
  This question is worth 1 point and 1 bonus point.
 \end{question}
 \begin{question}{+3}
  This question is a bonus question. It is worth 3 bonus points.
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}

\sinceversion{0.3}On additional thing: you might want to define custom
commands that should behave differently if they're inside or outside of the
\code{question} environment. In this case you can use these commands:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \expandable\Befehl{IfInsideQuestionTF}{<true code>}\ma{<false code>}
 \expandable\Befehl{IfInsideQuestionT}{<true code>}
 \expandable\Befehl{IfInsideQuestionF}{<false code>}
\end{beschreibung}

\subsection{Options to the \code{question} Environment}\secidx[options]{questions}
The \code{question} environment takes one or more of the following options:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Option[question]{type}{exam|exercise}\Default{exercise}
   determines the type of question and changes the default name of a question
   from ``Exercise'' to ``Question''. These default names are language dependent.\\
   If you use \cmd*{usepackage}[ngerman]{babel}, for example, then the names
   are ``\"Ubung and ``Aufgabe''.
 \Option[question]{name}{<name>}\Default{}
   sets a custom name. All predefined names are discarded.
 \Option[question]{print}{\default{true}|false}\Default{true}
   prints or hides the question.
 \Option[question]{ID}{<id>}\Default{}
   assigns a custom \acs{id} to the question. See section~\ref{ssec:ids} for further
   information.
 \Option[question]{label}{<label>}\Default{}
   Places a \cmd*{label}{<label>} for the question. This will overwrite any label
   that is placed by the \key{auto-label} option.
 \Option[question]{class}{<class>}\Default{}
   assigns a class to the question. See section~\ref{sec:classes} for further
   information.
 \Option[question]{topic}{<topic>}\Default{}
   assigns a topic to the question. See section~\ref{sec:topics} for further
   information.
 \Option[question]{use}{\default{true}|false}\Default{true}
   discards the question. Or not.
\end{beschreibung}
\begin{beispiel}
 \begin{question}[type=exam]
  This question has the type \texttt{exam}. The default name has changed from
  ``Exercise'' to ``Question''.
 \end{question}
 \begin{question}[name=Fancy name]
  This question has a custom name.
 \end{question}
 \begin{question}[print=false]
  This question is not printed.
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}

The difference between \key{print} and \key{use} lies behind the scenes: with
\key{print}{false} the question is not printed, but it still gets an individual
\ac{id}, is numbered, and a possible solution is saved. This is for example useful
when you want to print a sample solution for an exam. With \key{use}{false} it
is fully discarded which means it is not accessible through an \acs{id} and a
possible solution will not be saved.
\secidx*{questions}

\subsection{The \code{solution} Environment}\secidx{solutions}
If you want to save/print (more on the exact usage in section~\ref{sec:solutions})
a solution you have to use the \code{solution} environment \emph{after} the
question it belongs to and \emph{before} the next question.
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Umg{solution}[<options>]{...}
\end{beschreibung}
\begin{beispiel}
 \begin{question}[ID=first]\label{qu:question_with_solution}
  This is our first question that gets a solution!
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}
  This is the solution to exercise~\ref{qu:question_with_solution}!
 \end{solution}
\end{beispiel}
You can see that in the default settings the solution is \emph{not} written to the
document. It has been saved, though, for possible later usage. We will see the
solution later!

\subsection{Options to the \code{solution} Environment}\secidx[options]{solutions}
The \code{solutions} environment also has options, namely these:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Option[solution]{name}{<name>}\Default{}
   sets a custom name.
 \Option[solution]{print}{\default{true}|false}\Default{false}
   prints or hides the solution.
\end{beschreibung}
Their meaning is the same as those for the \code{question} environment.
\begin{beispiel}
 \begin{question}{5}
  The solution to this questions gets printed where it is.
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}[print]
  See? This solution gets printed where you have put it in the code of
  your document.
 \end{solution}
 \begin{question}{2.5}
  The solution to this questions gets printed where it is \emph{and}
  has a fancy name. Have you noticed that you can assign partial
  points?
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}[print,name=Fancy name]
  See? This solution gets printed where you have put it and has a fancy
  name!
 \end{solution}
\end{beispiel}
\secidx*{solutions}

\subsection{Setting the Counter}\label{ssec:counter}\secidx{Setting the Counter}
The package option \key{counter-format} allows you to specify how
the question counter is formatted.

The input is an arbitrary string which means you can have anything as counter
number. However, the letter combinations \code{ch}, \code{se}, \code{qu} and
\code{tsk} are replaced with the counters for the chapter, section, question
or tasks (see part~\ref{part:tasks}), respectively. While the last one is not
really useful in this case the others allow for a combined numbering. Each of
these letter combinations can have an optional argument that specifies the format
of the respective counter. \code{1}: \cmd{arabic}, \code{a}: \cmd{alph}, \code{A}:
\cmd{Alph}, \code{r}: \cmd{roman} and \code{R}: \cmd{Roman}.
\begin{beispiel}
 \SetupExSheets{counter-format=Nr~se~(qu[a])}
 \begin{question}
  A question with a differently formatted number.
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}
Since the strings associated with the counters are replaced one has to hide them
if they are actually wanted in the counter format. The easiest way would to
hide them in braces.
\begin{beispiel}
 \SetupExSheets{counter-format={section}\,se~{question}\,(qu[a])}
 \begin{question}
  A question with a yet differently formatted number.
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}
\secidx*{Setting the Counter}

\subsection{Language Settings}\secidx{Language Settings}
The names of the questions and solutions are language dependent. If you use
\paket{babel} or \paket{polyglossia} \ExSheets will adapt to the document
language. Exsheets has a number of translations but surely not all! If you miss
a language please drop me a line in an email%
\footnote{\href{mailto:contact@mychemistry.eu}{contact@mychemistry.eu}}
containing the \paket{babel} language name and the correct translations for
questions (possibly distinguishing between exercises and exam questions) and
solutions.

Until I implement it you can add something like this to your preamble (example
for Danish) and try if it works:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareTranslation{Danish}{exsheets-exercise-name}
   {\O{}velse}
 \DeclareTranslation{Danish}{exsheets-question-name}
   {Opgave}
 \DeclareTranslation{Danish}{exsheets-solution-name}
   {Opl\o{}sning}
\end{beispiel}
If this isn't working it means that the language you're using is unknown to
the \translations package (see part~\ref{part:translations}). In this case please
notify me, too. You then can still use the \key{name} options.
\secidx*{Language Settings}

\section{Counting Points}\label{sec:points}\secidx{Counting Points}
\subsection{The Commands}
You have seen in section~\ref{ssec:questions} that you can assign points to a
question. If you do so these points are printed into the margin\footnote{Well,
not necessarily. It depends on the heading style you have chosen.} and are counted
internally. But there are additional commands to assign points or bonus points
and a number of commands to retrieve the sum of points and/or bonus points.
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{addpoints}*{<num>}\newline
   This command can be used to add points assigned to subquestions.
   \cmd{addpoints} will print the points (with ``unit'') \emph{and} add them to
   the sum of all points, \cmd{addpoints}* will only add them but print nothing.
 \Befehl{points}*{<num>}\newline
   This command will only print the points (with ``unit'') but won't add them
   to the sum of points.
 \Befehl{addbonus}*{<num>}\newline
   This command can be used to add bonus points assigned to subquestions.
   \cmd{addbonus} will print the points (with ``unit'') \emph{and} add them to
   the sum of all bonus points, \cmd{addbonus}* will only add them but print nothing.
 \Befehl{bonus}*{<num>}\newline
   This command will only print the bonus points (with ``unit'') but won't add them
   to the sum of bonus points.
 \Befehl{pointssum}*\newline
   Prints the sum of all points with or without (starred version) ``unit'':
   \pointssum
 \Befehl{currentpointssum}*\newline
   Prints the current sum of points with or without (starred version) ``unit'':
   \currentpointssum
 \Befehl{bonussum}*\newline
   Prints the sum of all bonus points with or without (starred version) ``unit'':
   \bonussum
 \Befehl{currentbonussum}*\newline
   Prints the current sum of bonus points with or without (starred version) ``unit'':
   \currentbonussum
 \Befehl{totalpoints}*\newline
   prints the sum of the points \emph{and} the sum of the bonus points with ``unit'':
   \totalpoints\space
   The starred version prints the sum of the points without ``unit'': \totalpoints*.
\end{beschreibung}
The commands \cmd{pointssum}, \cmd{bonussum} and \cmd{totalpoints} need at least
\emph{two} \LaTeX\ runs to get the sum right.

Suppose you have an exercise worth \points{4} which consists of four questions
listed with an \code{enumerate} environment that are all worth \points{1} each.
You have two possibilities to display and count them:
\begin{beispiel}
 % uses package `enumitem'
 \begin{question}{4}
  \begin{enumerate}[label=\alph*)]
   \item blah (\points{1})
   \item blah (\points{1})
   \item blah (\points{1})
   \item blah (\points{1})
  \end{enumerate}
 \end{question}
 \begin{question}
  \begin{enumerate}[label=\alph*)]
   \item blah (\addpoints{1})
   \item blah (\addpoints{1})
   \item blah (\addpoints{1})
   \item blah (\addpoints{1})
  \end{enumerate}
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}

\subsection{Options}\secidx[options]{Counting Points}
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Option[points]{name}{<name>}\Default{P.}
   Choose the ``unit'' for the points. If you like to differentiate between a
   single point and more than one point you can give a plural ending separated
   with a slash: \key{name}{point/s}. This sets also the name of the bonus points.
 \Option[points]{name-plural}{<plural form of name>}\Default{}
   Instead of forming the plural form with an ending to the singular form this
   option allows to set an extra word for it. This sets also the plural form for
   the bonus points.
 \Option[points]{bonus-name}{<name>}\Default{P.}
   Choose the ``unit'' for the bonus points. If you like to differentiate between a
   single point and more than one point you can give a plural ending separated
   with a slash: \key{bonus-name}{point/s}.
 \Option[points]{bonus-plural}{<plural form of name>}\Default{}
   Instead of forming the plural form with an ending to the singular form this
   option allows to set an extra word for it.
 \Option[points]{use-name}{\default{true}|false}\Default{true}
   Don't display the name at all. Or do.
 \Option[points]{number-format}{<any code>}\Default{}
   This option allows formatting of the number, \eg italics:
   \key{number-format}{\cmd{textit}}.
 \Option[points]{bonus-format}{<any code>}\Default{}
   This option allows formatting of the number of the bonus points, \eg italics:
   \key{bonus-format}{\cmd{textit}}.
 \Option[points]{parse}{\default{true}|false}\Default{true}
   If set to \code{false} the points are not counted and the \cmd{totalpoints},
   \cmd{pointssum} and \cmd{bonussum} commands won't know their value.
 \Option[points]{separate-bonus}{\default{true}|false}\Default{false}
   This option determines whether points and bonus points each get their own
   unit when they appear together (in the margin or with \cmd{totalpoints}).
 \Option[points]{pre-bonus}{<tokens>}\Default{(+}
   Code to be inserted before the bonus points when they follow normal points.
 \Option[points]{post-bonus}{<tokens>}\Default{)}
   Code to be inserted after the bonus points when they follow normal points.
\end{beschreibung}
\begin{beispiel}
 \SetupExSheets[points]{name=point/s,number-format=\color{red}}
 \begin{question}{1}
  This one's easy so only 1 point can be earned.
 \end{question}
 \begin{question}{7.5}
  But this one's hard! 7.5 points are in there for you!
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}
\secidx*{Counting Points}

\section{Printing Solutions}\label{sec:solutions}\secidx[print]{solutions}
You have already seen that you can print solutions where they are using the
\key[solution]{print} option. But \ExSheets offers you quite more possibilities.

In the next subsections the usage of the command
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{printsolutions}[<setting>]
\end{beschreibung}
is discussed.

Before we do that a hint: remember that you can set the option \key{print} globally:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 % in the preamble
 \SetupExSheets{solution/print=true}
\end{beispiel}

Now if you want to typeset some text depending on the option being true or not
you can use the following commands:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \expandable\Befehl{PrintSolutionsTF}{<true code>}\ma{<false code>}
 \expandable\Befehl{PrintSolutionsT}{<true code>}
 \expandable\Befehl{PrintSolutionsF}{<false code>}
\end{beschreibung}
They might come in handy if you want two versions of an exercise sheet, one with
the exercises and one with the solutions, and you want to add different titles
to these versions, for instance.

\subsection{Print all}\secidx[print!all]{solutions}
The first and easiest usage of \cmd{printsolutions} is the following:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \printsolutions
\end{beispiel}
There is nothing more to say, really. It prints all solutions you have specified
except those belonging to a question with option \key{use}{false}. Yes, there's
one more point: \cmd{printsolutions} only knows the solutions that have been set
\emph{before} its usage! This is also true for every usage explained in the next
sections.

\begin{beispiel}[below]
 \printsolutions
\end{beispiel}

\subsection{Print per chapter/section}\secidx[print!per section/chapter]{solutions}
\minisec{Current chapter/section}
If you are not creating an exercise sheet or an exam but are writing a textbook
you maybe want a section at the end of each chapter showing the solution to the
exercises presented in that chapter. In this case use the command as follows:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \printsolutions[section]
 % or
 \printsolutions[chapter]
\end{beispiel}
Again, this is pretty much self-explaining. The solutions to the questions of the
current chapter\footnote{Only if the document class you're using \emph{has}
chapters, of course!} or section are printed.
\begin{beispiel}
 \begin{question}
  This is the first and only question in this section.
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}
  This will be one of a few solutions printed by the following call of
  \cmd{printsolutions}.
 \end{solution}
 And now:
 \printsolutions[section]
\end{beispiel}

\minisec{Specific chapter/section}\label{sssec:print_specific_section}
You can also print only the solutions from chapters or sections other than the
current ones. The syntax is fairly easy:
\begin{beispiel}[below]
 \printsolutions[section={1-7,10}]
 % the same for chapters:
 % \printsolutions[chapter={1-7,10}]
\end{beispiel}
Don't forget that \cmd{printsolutions} cannot know the solutions from section~10
yet. It is just used to demonstrate the syntax. You can also use an open range,
\eg something like
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \printsolutions[section={-4,10-}]
\end{beispiel}
This would print the solutions from sections~1--4 and from all sections with
number 10\footnote{Or rather where \cmd{value}{section} is 10 or greater -- the
actual counter formatting is irrelevant.} and greater.

There is an obvious disadvantage: you have to know the section numbers! But there
is a solution: use the package option \key{use-ref}{true}. Then you can do something
like
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 % in the preamble:
 \usepackage[use-ref]{exsheets}
 % somewhere in your code after \section{A really cool section title}:
 \label{sec:ReallyCool}
 % somewhere later in your code:
 \printsolutions[section={-\S{sec:ReallyCool}}]
 % which will print all solutions from questions up to and
 % including the really cool section
\end{beispiel}
With the package option \key{use-ref}{true} each usage of \cmd{label} will create
additional labels (one preceded with \code{exse:} and another one with \code{exch:})
which store the section number and the chapter number, respectively. These are used
internally by two commands \cmd{S} and \cmd{C} which refer to the section number
and the chapter number the label was created in. \emph{These commands are only
available as arguments of} \cmd{printsolutions}.

Since some packages like the well known \paket{hyperref} for example redefine
\cmd{label} \key{use-ref} won't work in together with it. In this case don't
use \key{use-ref} and set \cmd{exlabel}{<label>} instead to remember the
section/the chapter number. Its usage is just like \cmd{label}. So the safest way
is as follows:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 % in the preamble:
 \usepackage{exsheets}
 % somewhere in your code after \section{A really cool section title}:
 \exlabel{sec:ReallyCool}
 % somewhere later in your code:
 \printsolutions[section={-\S{sec:ReallyCool}}]
 % which will print all solutions from questions up to and
 % including the really cool section
\end{beispiel}
Please be aware that the labels must be processed in a previous \LaTeX\ run before
\cmd{S} and \cmd{C} can pass them on to \cmd{printsolutions}.

\subsection{Print by \acs{id}}\label{ssec:ids}\secidx[print!by ID]{solutions}
Now comes the best part: you can also print selected solutions! Every question
has an \acs{id}. To see which \acs{id} a question has you can call the following
command:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{DebugExSheets}{true|false}
 \Befehl{CurrentQuestionID}\newline\sinceversion{0.4a}%
   expands to the current question \acs{id} (after two expansions).
\end{beschreibung}
Let's create some more questions and take a look what this command does:
\begin{beispiel}
 \DebugExSheets{true}
 \begin{question}[ID=nice!]
  A question with a nice \acs{id}!
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}
  The solution to the question with the nice \acs{id}.
 \end{solution}
 \begin{question}{3.75}
  Yet another question. But this time with quarter points!
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}
  Yet another solution.
 \end{solution}
\end{beispiel}

So now we can call some specific solutions:
\begin{beispiel}
 \printsolutions[byID={first,nice!,10,14}]
\end{beispiel}
This makes use of the \paket{l3sort} package which at the time of writing is still
considered experimental. In case you wonder where solution~14 is: question~14
has no solution given.

If you don't want that the solutions are sorted automatically but appear in the
order given you can use the option
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Option[solution]{sorted}{\default{true}|false}\Default{true}
   Sort solutions given by \acs{id} or don't.
\end{beschreibung}

\section{Dividing Questions into Classes}\label{sec:dividing-concepts}
\subsection{Using Classes}\label{sec:classes}\secidx{Classes}
\secidx[Classes]{Dividing Concepts}
For creating different variants of a written exam or different difficulty levels
of an exercise sheet it comes in handy if one can assign certain classes to questions
and then tell \ExSheets only to use one ore more specific classes.
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Option{use-classes}{<list of classes>}\Default{}
   When this option is used only the questions belonging to the specified classes
   are printed and have their solutions saved.
\end{beschreibung}
\begin{beispiel}
 \SetupExSheets{use-classes={A,C}}
 \begin{question}[class=A]
  Belonging to class A.
 \end{question}
 \begin{question}[class=B]
  Belonging to class B.
 \end{question}
 \begin{question}[class=C]
  Belonging to class C!
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}
Questions of classes that are not used are fully discarded. \emph{This also means
that questions that don't have a class assigned are discarded.}
\secidx*{Classes}
\ExplSyntaxOn
 \bool_set_false:N \g__exsheets_use_classes_bool
\ExplSyntaxOff

\subsection{Using Topics}\label{sec:topics}\secidx{Topics}
\secidx[Topics]{Dividing Concepts}
Similarly to classes one can assign topics to questions. The usage is practically
identical, the semantic meaning is different.
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Option{use-topics}{<list of topics>}\Default{}
   When this option is used only the questions belonging to the specified topics
   are printed and have their solutions saved.
\end{beschreibung}
\begin{beispiel}
 \SetupExSheets{use-topics={trigonometry}}
 \begin{question}[topic=trigonometry]
  A trigonometry question.
 \end{question}
 \begin{question}[topic=arithmetics]
  A arithmetics question
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}
Questions of topics that are not used are fully discarded. \emph{This also means
that questions that don't have a topic assigned are discarded.}

If you set both \key{use-classes} and \key{use-topics} then only questions
will be used that \emph{match both categories}.

Ideally one could assign more than one topic to a question but this is \emph{not}
supported yet.
\secidx*{Topics}
\ExplSyntaxOn
 \bool_set_false:N \g__exsheets_use_topics_bool
\ExplSyntaxOff

\subsection{Own Dividing Concepts}\secidx{Dividing Concepts}
\noindent\sinceversion{0.8}Actually both classes and topics are introduced into
\ExSheets internally this way:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareQuestionClass{class}{classes}
 \DeclareQuestionClass{topic}{topics}
\end{beispiel}
which means you can do the same introducing your own dividing concepts.
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{DeclareQuestionClass}{<singular name>}\ma{<plural name>}\newline
   Introduces a new dividing concept and defines both new options for the
   \code{question} environment and new global options.
\end{beschreibung}

For example you could decide you want to group your questions according to their
difficulty. You could place the following line in your preamble:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareQuestionClass{difficulty}{difficulties}
\end{beispiel}
This would define an option \key{use-difficulties} analogous to \key{use-classes}
and \key{use-topics}. It would also define an option \key{difficulty} for the
\code{question} environment. This means you could now do something like the
following:
\begin{beispiel}
 \SetupExSheets{use-difficulties={easy,hard}}
 \begin{question}[difficulty=easy]
  An easy question.
 \end{question}
 \begin{question}[difficulty=medium]
  This one's a bit harder.
 \end{question}
 \begin{question}[difficulty=hard]
  Now let's see if you can solve this one.
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}
\secidx*{Dividing Concepts}
\ExplSyntaxOn
 \bool_set_false:N \g__exsheets_use_difficulties_bool
\ExplSyntaxOff

\section{Adding and Using Additional Information to Questions}\label{sec:additional_info}
\secidx{Additional Information to Questions}
For managing lots of questions and corresponding solutions it can be very useful
to be able to save and recover additional information to the questions. This is
possible with the following commands. First the ones for saving:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{DeclareQuestionProperty}{<name>}\newline
   This command defines a question property \code{<name>}. It can only be used
   in the document preamble.
 \Befehl{SetQuestionProperties}{<name>=<value>,...}\newline
   Set the properties for a specific question. this command can only be used
   inside the \code{question} environment.
\end{beschreibung}
Now the commands for recovering the properties:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{QuestionNumber}{<id>}\newline
   Recover the number of the question with the \acs{id} \code{<id>}. The number
   is displayed according to the format set with \key{counter-format}.
 \Befehl{GetQuestionProperty}{<name>}\ma{<id>}\newline
   Recover the property \code{<name>} of the question with the \acs{id} \code{<id>}.
   Of course the property must have been declared before.
\end{beschreibung}

Let's say we have declared the properties \code{notes}, \code{reference}
and \code{topic}. By default the property \code{points} is available and gets the
value of the optional argument of the \code{question} environment.

We can now do the following:
\begin{beispiel}
 % uses `biblatex'
 \begin{question}[ID=center,topic=LaTeX]{3}
  Explain how you could center text in a \LaTeX\ document.
  \SetQuestionProperties{
    topic     = \TeX/\LaTeX ,
    notes     = {How to center text.},
    reference = {\textcite{companion}}}
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}
  To center a short part of the text body one can use the \texttt{center}
  environment (\points{1}). Inside an environment like \texttt{table} one
  should use \texttt{\string\centering} (\points{1}). For single lines
  there is also the \texttt{\string\centerline} command (\points{1}).
 \end{solution}
 \begin{question}[ID=knuthbooks,topic=LaTeX]{2}
  Name two books by D.\,E.\,Knuth.
  \SetQuestionProperties{
    topic     = \TeX/\LaTeX ,
    notes     = {Books by Knuth.},
    reference = {\textcite{knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b,knuth:ct:c,knuth:ct:d,knuth:ct:e}}}
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}
  For example two volumes from \citetitle{knuth:ct}:
  \citetitle{knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b,knuth:ct:c,knuth:ct:d,knuth:ct:e}. Each valid
  answer is worth \points{1}
 \end{solution}
\end{beispiel}

It is now possible to recover these values later:
\begin{beispiel}
 % uses `booktabs'
 \begin{center}
  \begin{tabular}{lll}
   \toprule
    Question & Property & \\
   \midrule
    \QuestionNumber{center}
      & Points     & \GetQuestionProperty{points}{center} \\
      & Topic      & \GetQuestionProperty{topic}{center} \\
      & References & \GetQuestionProperty{reference}{center} \\
      & Note       & \GetQuestionProperty{notes}{center} \\
   \midrule
    \QuestionNumber{knuthbooks}
      & Points     & \GetQuestionProperty{points}{knuthbooks} \\
      & Topic      & \GetQuestionProperty{topic}{knuthbooks} \\
      & References & \GetQuestionProperty{reference}{knuthbooks} \\
      & Note       & \GetQuestionProperty{notes}{knuthbooks} \\
   \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
 \end{center}
\end{beispiel}

\sinceversion{0.7a}If you use the package option \key{auto-label} the properties
\code{ref} and \code{pageref} are predefined which will call the corresponding
\cmd*{ref} or \cmd*{pageref}, respectively.

Please note that these properties \emph{are not the same} as the dividing
concepts explained in section~\ref{sec:dividing-concepts} although they may
seem similar in meaning or even have the same name.

\sinceversion{0.3}There are additional commands that might prove useful:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{ForEachQuestion}{<code to be executed for each used question>}\newline
   Inside the argument one can refer to the \ac{id} of a question with \code{\#1}.
   Beware that this command only knows of questions used before it is issued.
 \expandable\Befehl{numberofquestions}\newline
   Returns the current number of used questions. Beware that this command only knows
   of questions used before it is issued.
 \expandable\Befehl{iflastquestion}{<true code>}\ma{<false code>}\newline
   Although this command is available in the whole document it is only useful
   inside \cmd{ForEachQuestion}. It tells you if the end of the loop is reached
   or not.
\end{beschreibung}
For example one could use these commands to create a grading table:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \begin{tabular}{|l|*{\numberofquestions}{c|}c|}\hline
  Question &
    \ForEachQuestion{\QuestionNumber{#1}\iflastquestion{}{&}} &
    Total \\ \hline
  Points   &
    \ForEachQuestion{\GetQuestionProperty{points}{#1}\iflastquestion{}{&}} &
    \pointssum* \\ \hline
  Reached  &
    \ForEachQuestion{\iflastquestion{}{&}} & \\ \hline
 \end{tabular}
\end{beispiel}
For four questions the table now would look similar to figure~\ref{fig:grading-table}.

\begin{figure}[ht]
 \centering
 \begin{tabular}{|l|*{4}{c|}c|}\hline
  Question & 1. & 2. & 3. & 4. & Total \\ \hline
  Points   &  3 &  5 & 10 &  8 & 26 \\ \hline
  Reached  &    &    &    &    &    \\ \hline
 \end{tabular}
 \caption{An example for a grading table. (Actually this is a fake. See the
   \code{grading-table.tex} file shipped with exsheets for the real use case.)}
 \label{fig:grading-table}
\end{figure}
\secidx*{Additional Information to Questions}

\section{Variations of an Exam}\secidx{Variations}
\noindent\sinceversion{0.6}It is a quite common task to design an exam in two
different variants. This is of course possible with \ExSheets' classes (see
section~\ref{sec:classes}). However, often not the whole question is to be
different but only small details, the numbers in a maths exam, say. For this
purpose \ExSheets provides the following commands:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{SetVariations}{<num>}\newline
   Set the number of different variants. This will determine how many arguments
   the command \cmd*{vary} will get. \code{<num>} must at least be \code{2} and
   is initially set to \code{2}.
 \Befehl{variant}{<num>}\newline
   Choose the active variant. The argument must be a number between \code{1}
   and the number set with \cmd*{SetVariations}. Initially set to \code{1}.
 \Befehl{vary}{<variant 1>}\ma{<variant 2>}\newline
   This command is the one actually used in the document. It has a number of
   required arguments equal to the number set with \cmd*{SetVariations}. All of
   its arguments are discarded except the one specified with \cmd*{variant}.
 \Befehl{lastvariant}\newline% TODO: richtige version einfügen!
   \sinceversion{0.7b}Each time \cmd{vary} is called it stores the value it
   chose in \cmd{lastversion}. This might be convenient to use if one
   otherwise would have to repeatedly write the same \cmd{vary}.
\end{beschreibung}

\begin{beispiel}
 \SetVariations{6}%
 \variant{6}\vary{A}{B}{C}{D}{E}{F}
 (last variant: \lastvariant)
 \variant{1}\vary{A}{B}{C}{D}{E}{F}
 (last variant: \lastvariant)
 \variant{5}\vary{A}{B}{C}{D}{E}{F}
 (last variant: \lastvariant)
 \variant{2}\vary{A}{B}{C}{D}{E}{F}
 (last variant: \lastvariant)
 \variant{4}\vary{A}{B}{C}{D}{E}{F}
 (last variant: \lastvariant)
 \variant{3}\vary{A}{B}{C}{D}{E}{F}
 (last variant: \lastvariant)
\end{beispiel}
\secidx*{Variations}

\section{A Grade Distribution}\secidx{Grade Distribution}
Probably this is a rather esoteric feature but it could proof useful in some cases.
Suppose you are a German math teacher and want to grade exactly corresponding to
the number of points relative to the sum of total points, regardless of how big
that might be. You could do something like this to present your grading decisions
for the exam:
\begin{beispiel}
 % preamble:
 % \DeclareRelGrades{
 %   1     = 1 ,
 %   {1,5} = .9167 ,
 %   2     = .8333 ,
 %   {2,5} = .75 ,
 %   3     = .6667 ,
 %   {3,5} = .5833 ,
 %   4     = .5
 % }
 \small\setlength\tabcolsep{2pt}
 \begin{tabular}{r|*8c}
  Punkte
    & $\grade*{1}$      & $\le\grade*{1}$ & $\le\grade*{1,5}$ & $\le\grade*{2}$
    & $\le\grade*{2,5}$ & $\le\grade*{3}$ & $\le\grade*{3,5}$ & $<\grade*{4}$ \\
  Note
    & 1 & 1--2 & 2 & 2--3 & 3 & 3--4 & 4 & 5
 \end{tabular}
\end{beispiel}

These are the available commands and options:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{DeclareRelGrades}{<grade>=<num>,...}\newline
   This command is used to define grades and assign the percentage of total
   points to them.
 \Befehl{grade}*{<grade>}\newline
   Gives the number of points corresponding to a grade depending on the value
   of \cmd{pointssum} with or without (starred version) ``unit''.
 \Option[grades]{round}{<num>}\Default{0}
   The number of decimals the points of a grade are rounded to. This doesn't apply
   to the maximum number of points if the rounded number would be bigger than the
   actual sum.
 \Option[grades]{half}{\default{true}|false}\Default{false}
   If set to \code{true} points are rounded either to full or to half points.
\end{beschreibung}
\secidx*{Grade Distribution}

\section{Selectively Include Questions from External Files}\label{sec:include}
\secidx{Include from External Files}
Suppose you have one or more files with questions prepared to use them as a kind
of database. One for class A, say, one for class B, one for class C and so one,
something like this:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 % this is file classA.tex
 \begin{question}[class=A,ID=A1,topic=X]
  First question of class A, topic X.
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}
  First solution of class A.
 \end{solution}
 \begin{question}[class=A,ID=A2,topic=Y]
  Second question of class A, topic Y.
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}
  Second solution of class A.
 \end{solution}
 ...
 % end of file classA.tex
 \endinput
\end{beispiel}
You can of course just \cmd{input} or \cmd{include} it but that would of course
include the whole file into your document. But would't it be nice to just include
selected questions? Or maybe a five random questions from the file? That is
possible with the following command:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{includequestions}[<options>]{<list of filenames>}
\end{beschreibung}
If you use it without options it will have the same effect as \cmd{input}. There
are however the following options:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Option[include]{all}{\default{true}|false}
 \Option[include]{IDs}{<list of IDs>}\Default{}
   Includes only the specified questions.
 \Option[include]{random}{<num>}\Default{}
   Includes \code{<num>} randomly selected questions. This option uses the
   \paket{pgfcore} package to create the pseudo-random numbers.
 \Option[include]{exclude}{<list of IDs>}\Default{}
   Questions who's \acp{id} are specified here are \emph{not} included. This
   option can be combined with the \key{random} option.
\end{beschreibung}
The usage should be self-explainable:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 % include questions A1, A3 and A4:
 \includequestions[IDs={A1,A3,A4}]{classA.tex}
 % or include 3 random questions:
 \includequestions[random=3]{classA}
\end{beispiel}
In order to be able to select the questions \ExSheets needs to \cmd{input} the
file twice. The first time the available questions are determined, the second time
the selected questions are used. This unfortunately means that anything that is
\emph{not} part of a question or solution is also input twice. Either don't put
anything else into the file or use one of the following commands for control:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{PrintIfIncludeActiveTF}\ma{<true code>}\ma{<false code>}
 \Befehl{PrintIfIncludeActiveT}\ma{<true code>}
 \Befehl{PrintIfIncludeActiveF}\ma{<false code>}
\end{beschreibung}

The selection can be refined further by selecting questions belonging to a
specific class of questions (see section~\ref{sec:dividing-concepts}) before
using \cmd{includequestions}.

\sinceversion{0.8}After you've used \cmd{includequestions} the \acp{id} of the
included questions is available as an unordered comma separated list in the
following macro:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{questionsincludedlast}\newline
   Unordered comma separated list of question \acp{id} included with the last
   usage of \cmd{includequestions}.
\end{beschreibung}
\secidx*{Include from External Files}

\section{Own Question/Solution Pairs}
\noindent\sinceversion{0.3}\ExSheets provides he possibility to create new
environments that behave like the \code{question} and \code{solution} environments.
This would allow, for example, to define a \code{question*}/\code{solution*}
environment pair for bonus questions. The following commands may be used in the
document preamble:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{NewQuSolPair}{<question>}\oa{<question options>}\ma{<solution>}\oa{<solution options>}
 \Befehl{RenewQuSolPair}{<question>}\oa{<question options>}\ma{<solution>}\oa{<solution options>}
\end{beschreibung}
The standard environments are defined as follows:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \NewQuSolPair{question}{solution}
\end{beispiel}

Let's say we want the possibility to add bonus questions. A simple way would be
to define starred variants that add a star in the margin left to the title:
\begin{beispiel}
 % preamble:
 % \NewQuSolPair
 %   {question*}[name=\protect\llap{$\bigstar$\space}Bonus Question]
 %   {solution*}[name=\protect\llap{$\bigstar$\space}Solution]
 \begin{question*}
  This is a bonus question.
 \end{question*}
 \begin{solution*}[print]
  This is what the solution looks like.
 \end{solution*}
\end{beispiel}
As you can see the environments take the same options as are described for the
standard \code{question} and \code{solution} environments.

\section{Filling in the Blanks}\secidx{Blanks}
\subsection{Cloze}\secidx[Cloze]{Blanks}
\noindent\changedversion{0.4}Both in exercise sheets and in exams it is sometimes
desirable to be able to create \blank{blanks} that have to be filled in. Or may
be some more lines: \blank[width=5\linewidth]{}

\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{blank}*[<options>]{<text to be filled in>}\newline
   creates a blank in normal text or in a question but fills the text of its
   argument if inside a solution. If used at the \emph{begin of a paragraph}
   \cmd{blank} will do two things: it will set the linespread according to an
   option explained below and will insert \cmd*{par} after the lines. If you
   don't want that use the starred version.
\end{beschreibung}

The options are these:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Option[blank]{style}{line|wave|dline|dotted|dashed}\Default{line}
   The style of the line.
 \Option[blank]{scale}{<num>}\Default{1}
   Scales the width of the blank by factor \code{<num>} unless the width is
   explicitly set.
 \Option[blank]{width}{<dim>}\Default{}
   The width of the line. If it is not used the width of the filled in text is used.
 \Option[blank]{linespread}{<num>}\Default{1}
   Set the linespread for the blank lines. This only has an effect if \cmd{blank}
   is used at the begin of a paragraph.
\end{beschreibung}
\begin{beispiel}
 \begin{question}
  Try to fill in \blank[width=4cm]{these} blanks. All of them
  \blank[style=dotted]{are created} by using the \cmd{blank}
  \blank[style=dashed]{command}.
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}[print]
  Try to fill in \blank[width=4cm]{these} blanks. All of them
  \blank[style=dotted]{are created} by using the \cmd{blank}
  \blank[style=dashed]{command}.
 \end{solution}
\end{beispiel}
A number of empty lines are easily created by setting the width option:
\begin{beispiel}
 
 \blank[width=4.8\linewidth,linespread=1.5]{}
\end{beispiel}

\subsection{Vertical Space for answers}\secidx[vertical space]{Blanks}
\noindent\sinceversion{0.3}When you're creating an exam you might want to add some
vertical space where the students can write down their answers. While you can
always use \cmd*{vspace} this is not always handy when the space left on the
page is less than you want. In this case it would be nice if a) there would be
no warning and b) the rest of the space would be added at the top of the next
page. This is what the following command is for:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{examspace}*{<dim>}\newline
   Add space as specified in \ma{<dim>}. If the space available on the current
   page is not enough the rest of the space will be added at the top of the
   next page. The starred version will silently drop any leftover space instead
   of adding it to the next page.
\end{beschreibung}
\begin{beispiel}
 \begin{question}
  What do you think of this feature?
  \examspace{3cm}
 \end{question}
 This line comes after the space.
\end{beispiel}
\secidx*{Blanks}

\section{Styling your Exercise/Exam Sheets}\label{part:style}
\subsection{Background}
The \ExSheets package makes extensive use of \LaTeX3's coffins\footnote{See the
documentation to the \paket*{xcoffins} package for more information on that.} as
well as its templates concept\footnote{Have a look into the documentation to the
\paket*{xtemplate} package.}. The latter allows a rather easy extension and
customization of some of \ExSheets' environments. To be more precise: you can
define your own instances for the headings used for questions and solutions
and for the \code{tasks} environment.

What this package doesn't provide is changing the background of questions or
framing them. But this is easily possible using the \paket{mdframed} package
and its \cmd*{surroundwithmdframed} command.

\subsection{The \code{exsheets-headings} Object}\label{sec:exsheets-headings}
\secidx{The `exsheets-headings' Object}
\ExSheets defines the object \code{exsheets-headings} and one template for it,
the `default' template. The package also defines two instances of this template,
the `block' instance and the `runin' instance.

\begin{beispiel}
 \SetupExSheets{headings=block}
 \begin{question}{1}
  a `block' heading
 \end{question}
 \SetupExSheets{headings=runin}
 \begin{question}{1}
  a `runin' heading
 \end{question}
\end{beispiel}

\subsubsection{Available Options}
This section only lists the options that can be used when defining an instance
of the `default' template. The following subsections will give loads of examples
of their usage. The options are listed in the definition for the template interface:

\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareTemplateInterface{exsheets-heading}{default}{3}
  {
    % option         : type      = default
    inline           : boolean   = false ,
    runin            : boolean   = false ,
    indent-first     : boolean   = false ,
    toc-reversed     : boolean   = false ,
    vscale           : real      = 1     ,
    above            : length    = 2pt   ,
    below            : length    = 2pt   ,
    main             : tokenlist =       ,
    pre-code         : tokenlist =       ,
    post-code        : tokenlist =       ,
    title-format     : tokenlist =       ,
    title-pre-code   : tokenlist =       ,
    title-post-code  : tokenlist =       ,
    number-format    : tokenlist =       ,
    number-pre-code  : tokenlist =       ,
    number-post-code : tokenlist =       ,
    points-format    : tokenlist =       ,
    points-pre-code  : tokenlist =       ,
    points-post-code : tokenlist =       ,
    join             : tokenlist =       ,
    attach           : tokenlist =
  }
\end{beispiel}


Each heading is built with at most four coffins available with the names `main',
`title', `number' and `points'. Those coffins place possibly the whole heading,
the title, the question number and the assigned points. The only coffin that's
always typeset is the `main' coffin, which is empty per default.

Coffins can be joined (two become one, the first extends its bounding box to contain
the second) using the following syntax:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 join = coffin1[handle11,handle12]coffin2[handle21,handle22](x-offset,y-offset)
\end{beispiel}
The syntax for attaching (two become one, the first does \emph{not} extend its
bounding box around the second) is the same.

More on coffin handles is described in the documentation for the \paket{xcoffins}.
Figure~\ref{fig:handles} briefly demonstrates the available handle pairs.

\begin{figure}[ht]
 \centering
 \parbox{4.5cm}{%
   \NewCoffin\ExampleCoffin
   \SetHorizontalCoffin\ExampleCoffin{\color{gray!30}\rule{4cm}{4cm}}%
   \DisplayCoffinHandles\ExampleCoffin{blue}%
 }
 \caption{Available handles for a horizontal coffin.}\label{fig:handles}
\end{figure}

The following subsections will show all definitions of the instances available
with the package option \key{load-headings} and how they look. This will hopefully
give you enough ideas to create your own instance if you want to have another
heading style than the ones available.

Of you use the option \key{load-headings} each of the following instances is
available through the option \key{headings}{<instance>}.

The following examples use a sample text defined as follows:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \def\s{This is some sample text we will use to create a somewhat
   longer text spanning a few lines.}
 \def\sample{\s\ \s\par\s}
\end{beispiel}
\def\s{This is some sample text we will use to create a somewhat longer text
 spanning a few lines.}
\def\sample{\s\ \s\par\s}

\subsubsection{The `block' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{block}{default}
  {
    join             = { title[r,B]number[l,B](1ex,0pt) } ,
    attach           =
      {
        main[l,vc]title[l,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]points[l,vc](\marginparsep,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=block}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `block' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `runin' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{runin}{default}
  {
    runin            = true ,
    number-post-code = \space ,
    attach           =
      { main[l,vc]points[l,vc](\linewidth+\marginparsep,0pt) } ,
    join             =
      {
        main[r,vc]title[r,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]number[l,vc](1ex,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=runin}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `runin' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `simple' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{simple}{default}
  {
    title-format     = \normalsize ,
    points-pre-code  = ( ,
    points-post-code = ) ,
    attach           = { main[l,t]number[l,t](0pt,0pt) } ,
    join             =
      {
        number[r,b]title[l,b](1ex,0pt) ;
        main[l,b]points[l,t](1em,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=simple}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `simple' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `block-rev' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{block-rev}{default}
  {
    toc-reversed     = true ,
    join             = { number[r,B]title[l,B](1ex,0pt) } ,
    attach           =
      {
        main[l,vc]number[l,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]points[l,vc](\marginparsep,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=block-rev}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `block-rev' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `block-wp' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{block-wp}{default}
  {
    points-pre-code  = ( ,
    points-post-code = ) ,
    join             =
      {
        title[r,B]number[l,B](1ex,0pt) ;
        title[r,B]points[l,B](1ex,0pt)
      } ,
    attach           = { main[l,vc]title[l,vc](0pt,0pt) }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=block-wp}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `block-wp' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `block-wp-rev' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{block-wp-rev}{default}
  {
    toc-reversed     = true ,
    points-pre-code  = ( ,
    points-post-code = ) ,
    join             =
      {
        number[r,B]title[l,B](1ex,0pt) ;
        number[r,B]points[l,B](1ex,0pt)
      } ,
    attach           = { main[l,vc]number[l,vc](0pt,0pt) }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=block-wp-rev}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `block-wp-rev' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `block-nr' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{block-nr}{default}
  {
    attach           =
      {
        main[l,vc]number[l,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]points[l,vc](\marginparsep,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=block-nr}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `block-nr' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\newpage% FIXME
\subsubsection{The `block-nr-wp' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{block-nr-wp}{default}
  {
    points-pre-code  = ( ,
    points-post-code = ) ,
    join             = { number[r,vc]points[l,vc](1ex,0pt) } ,
    attach           = { main[l,vc]number[l,vc](0pt,0pt) }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=block-nr-wp}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `block-nr-wp' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `runin-rev' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{runin-rev}{default}
  {
    toc-reversed     = true ,
    runin            = true ,
    title-post-code  = \space ,
    attach           =
      { main[l,vc]points[l,vc](\linewidth+\marginparsep,0pt) } ,
    join             =
      {
        main[r,vc]number[r,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]title[l,vc](1ex,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=runin-rev}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `runin-rev' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `runin-wp' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{runin-wp}{default}
  {
    runin            = true ,
    points-pre-code  = ( ,
    points-post-code = )\space ,
    join             =
      {
        main[r,vc]title[r,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]number[l,vc](1ex,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]points[l,vc](1ex,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=runin-wp}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `runin-wp' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `runin-wp-rev' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{runin-wp-rev}{default}
  {
    toc-reversed     = true ,
    runin            = true ,
    points-pre-code  = ( ,
    points-post-code = )\space ,
    join             =
      {
        main[r,vc]number[r,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]title[l,vc](1ex,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]points[l,vc](1ex,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=runin-wp-rev}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `runin-wp-rev' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `runin-nr' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{runin-nr}{default}
  {
    runin            = true ,
    number-post-code = \space ,
    attach           =
      { main[l,vc]points[l,vc](\linewidth+\marginparsep,0pt) } ,
    join             = { main[r,vc]number[l,vc](0pt,0pt) }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=runin-nr}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `runin-nr' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `runin-fixed-nr' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{runin-fixed-nr}{default}
  {
    runin            = true ,
    number-pre-code  = \hbox to 2em \bgroup ,
    number-post-code = \hfil\egroup ,
    attach           =
      { main[l,vc]points[l,vc](\linewidth+\marginparsep,0pt) } ,
    join             = { main[r,vc]number[l,vc](0pt,0pt) }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=runin-fixed-nr}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `runin-fixed-nr' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `runin-nr-wp' Instance}
\needspace{2\baselineskip}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{runin-nr-wp}{default}
  {
    runin            = true ,
    points-pre-code  = ( ,
    points-post-code = )\space ,
    join             =
      {
        main[r,vc]number[l,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]points[l,vc](1ex,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=runin-nr-wp}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `runin-nr-wp' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\newpage% FIXME
\subsubsection{The `inline' Instance}
\sinceversion{0.5}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{inline}{default}
  {
    inline           = true ,
    number-pre-code  = \space ,
    number-post-code = \space ,
    join             =
      {
        main[r,vc]title[r,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]number[l,vc](0pt,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=inline}
Text before
\begin{question}{1}
 An `inline' heading. \sample
\end{question}
 Text after

\subsubsection{The `inline-wp' Instance}
\sinceversion{0.5}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{inline-wp}{default}
  {
    inline           = true ,
    number-pre-code  = \space ,
    number-post-code = \space ,
    points-pre-code  = ( ,
    points-post-code = )\space ,
    join             =
      {
        main[r,vc]title[r,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]number[l,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]points[l,vc](0pt,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=inline-wp}
Text before
\begin{question}{1}
 An `inline-wp' heading. \sample
\end{question}
 Text after

\newpage% FIXME
\subsubsection{The `inline-nr' Instance}
\sinceversion{0.5}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{inline-nr}{default}
  {
    inline           = true ,
    number-post-code = \space ,
    join             = { main[r,vc]number[l,vc](0pt,0pt) }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=inline-nr}
Text before
\begin{question}{1}
 An `inline-nr' heading. \sample
\end{question}
 Text after

\subsubsection{The `centered' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{centered}{default}
  {
    join             = { title[r,B]number[l,B](1ex,0pt) } ,
    attach           =
      {
        main[hc,vc]title[hc,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]points[l,vc](\marginparsep,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=centered}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `centered' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `centered-wp' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{centered-wp}{default}
  {
    points-pre-code  = ( ,
    points-post-code = ) ,
    join             =
      {
        title[r,B]number[l,B](1ex,0pt) ;
        title[r,B]points[l,B](1ex,0pt)
      } ,
    attach           = { main[hc,vc]title[hc,vc](0pt,0pt) }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=centered-wp}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `centered-wp' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `margin' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{margin}{default}
  {
    runin            = true ,
    number-post-code = \space ,
    points-pre-code  = ( ,
    points-post-code = )\space ,
    join             = { title[r,b]number[l,b](1ex,0pt) } ,
    attach           =
      {
        main[l,vc]title[r,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[l,b]points[r,t](0pt,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=margin}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `margin' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `margin-nr' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{margin-nr}{default}
  {
    runin  = true ,
    attach =
      {
        main[l,vc]number[r,vc](-1ex,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]points[l,vc](\linewidth+\marginparsep,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=margin-nr}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `margin-nr' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `raggedleft' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{raggedleft}{default}
  {
    join             = { title[r,B]number[l,B](1ex,0pt) } ,
    attach           =
      {
        main[r,vc]title[r,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[r,vc]points[l,vc](\marginparsep,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=raggedleft}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `raggedleft' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `fancy' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{fancy}{default}
  {
    toc-reversed     = true ,
    indent-first     = true ,
    vscale           = 2 ,
    pre-code         = \rule{\linewidth}{1pt} ,
    post-code        = \rule{\linewidth}{1pt} ,
    title-format     = \large\scshape\color{exsheetsred} ,
    number-format    = \large\bfseries\color{exsheetsblue} ,
    points-format    = \itshape ,
    join             = { number[r,B] title[l,B] (1ex,0pt) } ,
    attach           =
      {
        main[hc,vc]number[hc,vc](0pt,0pt) ;
        main[l,vc]points[r,vc](-\marginparsep,0pt)
      }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=fancy}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `fancy' heading. \sample
\end{question}

\subsubsection{The `fancy-wp' Instance}
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareInstance{exsheets-heading}{fancy-wp}{default}
  {
    toc-reversed     = true ,
    indent-first     = true ,
    vscale           = 2 ,
    pre-code         = \rule{\linewidth}{1pt} ,
    post-code        = \rule{\linewidth}{1pt} ,
    title-format     = \large\scshape\color{exsheetsred} ,
    number-format    = \large\bfseries\color{exsheetsblue} ,
    points-format    = \itshape ,
    points-pre-code  = ( ,
    points-post-code = ) ,
    join             =
      {
        number[r,B]title[l,B](1ex,0pt) ;
        number[r,B]points[l,B](1ex,0pt)
      } ,
    attach           = { main[hc,vc]number[hc,vc](0pt,0pt) }
  }
\end{beispiel}
\SetupExSheets{headings=fancy-wp}
\begin{question}{1}
 A `fancy-wp' heading. \sample
\end{question}
\secidx*{The `exsheets-headings' Object}

\subsection{Load Custom Configurations}\secidx{Custom Configurations}
If you have custom configurations you want to be loaded automatically then save
them in a file \code{exsheets\_configurations.cfg}. If this file is present it
will be loaded \cmd*{AtBeginDocument}.
\secidx*{Custom Configurations}
\secidx*{\ExSheets}[ExSheets]
\SetupExSheets{headings=block}

\part{The \Tasks package (\tasksversion)}\label{part:tasks}
\secidx{\Tasks}[tasks]
\section{Motivation}\secidx[Motivation]{\Tasks}[tasks]
\noindent\changedversion{0.7}Originally \Tasks has been an integral part of
\ExSheets. However, users told me that it indeed could be useful to have it as a
standalone package not having to load the whole \ExSheets beast just for having
the \code{tasks} environment available. Since I agree with this the environment
has been extracted into a package if its own, \Tasks.

The reason for the \code{tasks} environment is an unwritten agreement in German
maths textbooks (in (junior) high school, especially) to organize exercises in
columns counting horizontally rather than vertically. That is what \code{tasks}
primarily is for. If you don't need this feature you're better off using traditional
\LaTeX{} lists and the \paket{enumitem} package for customization.

\section{Requirements}\secidx[Requirements]{\Tasks}[tasks]
\Tasks requires packages \paket{l3kernel} ,\paket{xparse}, \paket{l3keys2e},
\paket{epic}, \paket*{cntformats}\footnote{Part of the \ExSheets bundle, see
part~\ref{part:cntformats}}, \paket{xtemplate} and \paket{environ}.

\section{How it works}
The \code{tasks} environment is similar to a list like \code{enumerate} but not
the same:
\begin{itemize}
 \item The first difference: there is no pagebreak possible inside an item but
   only between items.
 \item The second difference: the enumeration default is a), b), c) \ldots
 \item The third difference: there is a split at \emph{every} occurrence of the
   item separator. For this reason the default separator is not \cmd*{item} but
   \cmd{task} so it is unique to this environment only.
 \item The fourth difference: the \code{tasks} environment cannot be nested. You
   can, however, use an \code{itemize} environment or something in it.
 \item The fifth difference: verbatim material cannot be used in it. You'll
   have to use \cmd*{string}, \cmd*{texttt} or \cmd*{detokenize}. If this won't
   suffice then don't use \code{tasks}.
\end{itemize}

\begin{beschreibung}
 \Umg{tasks}[<options>]{\unskip\da{<num of columns>} \cmd{task}\ldots}
\end{beschreibung}
Let's see an example:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 Some text before the list.
 \begin{tasks}
  \task \sample
  \task \sample
  \task \sample
 \end{tasks}
 And also some text after it.
\end{beispiel}
Some text before the list.
\begin{tasks}
 \task \sample
 \task \sample
 \task \sample
\end{tasks}
And also some text after it.
 
The environment takes the optional argument \da{<num of columns>} with which the
number of columns used by the environment is specified.
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \begin{tasks}(2)
  \task \sample
  \task \s\ \s
  \task \s
  \task \sample
  \task \s\par\s
 \end{tasks}
\end{beispiel}
\begin{tasks}(2)
 \task \sample
 \task \s\ \s
 \task \s
 \task \sample
 \task \s\par\s
\end{tasks}
 
\section{Available Options}\secidx[Options]{\Tasks}[tasks]\label{sec:tasks:options}
The \Tasks package has one package option which also is called when you load
\ExSheets with the \key{load-tasks} option.
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Option{more}\newline
   load additional instances for the \code{tasks} object, details are explained
   later in section~\ref{sec:tasks:instances}.
\end{beschreibung}

The environment itself has some more options, namely these:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Option{style}{<instance>}\Default{}
   Choose the instance to be used. Read more on this in section~\ref{sec:tasks}.
 \Option{label}{<label specs>}\Default{}
   Sets a custom label. The letters \code{tsk} are replaced with the task-counter.
   An optional argument directly following these letters specifies the counter format:
   \code{1}: \cmd{arabic}, \code{a}: \cmd{alph}, \code{A}: \cmd{Alph}, \code{r}:
   \cmd{roman} and \code{R}: \cmd{Roman}.
 \Option{label-width}{<dim>}\Default{3ex}
   Sets the width of the item labels.
 \Option{label-offset}{<dim>}\Default{1ex}
   \sinceversion{0.7}Sets the offset, i.e., the distance between label and item.
 \Option{label-align}{left|right|center}\Default{left}
   \sinceversion{0.7}Determines how the labels are aligned within the label-box
   whose width is set with \key{label-width}
 \Option{before-skip}{<skip>}\Default{0pt}
   Sets the skip before the list.
 \Option{after-skip}{<skip>}\Default{0pt}
   Sets the skip after the list.
 \Option{resume}{\default{true}|false}\Default{false}
   The enumeration will resume from a previous \code{tasks} environment. In order
   to use this option properly you shouldn't mix different \code{tasks} environments
   that both count their items.
\end{beschreibung}
These options can also be set using a setup command:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{settasks}{<options>}
\end{beschreibung}

Now the same list as above but with three columns and a different label:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \begin{tasks}[label=(tsk[r]),label-width=4ex](3)
  \task \sample
  \task \s\ \s
  \task \s
  \task \sample
  \task \s\par\s
 \end{tasks}
\end{beispiel}
\begin{tasks}[label=(tsk[r]),label-width=4ex](3)
 \task \sample
 \task \s\ \s
 \task \s
 \task \sample
 \task \s\par\s
\end{tasks}

Let's use it inside a question:
\begin{beispiel}
 % since settings are local the following ones will be lost
 % outside this example; see the appendix how the solution
 % appears there
 \settasks{label=qu.tsk,label-width=5ex}
 \begin{question}[type=exam]{4}
  I have these two tasks for you. Shall we begin?
  \begin{tasks}(2)
   \task The first task: easy!
   \task The second task: even more so!
  \end{tasks}
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}[print]
  Now, let's see\ldots\ ah, yes:
  \begin{tasks}
   \task This is the first solution. Told you it was easy.
   \task This is the second solution. And of course you knew that!
  \end{tasks}
 \end{solution}
\end{beispiel}

\section{Available Instances}\label{sec:tasks:instances}
When you use the package option \key{more} of the \Tasks package or load \ExSheets
with the \key{load-tasks} option there are currently three additional instances
for the \code{tasks} object available:
\begin{description}
 \item[itemize] uses \cmd{labelitemi} as labels.
 \item[enumerate] enumerates the items with 1., 2., \ldots
 \item[multiplechoice] a --~well~-- `multiple choice' list.
\end{description}
\begin{beispiel}
 \begin{tasks}[style=itemize](2)
  \task that's just how\ldots
  \task \ldots we expected
 \end{tasks}
 \begin{tasks}[style=enumerate](2)
  \task that's just how\ldots
  \task \ldots we expected
 \end{tasks}
 \begin{tasks}[style=multiplechoice](2)
  \task that's just how\ldots
  \task \ldots we expected
 \end{tasks}
\end{beispiel}

\section{Custom Labels}\secidx[Custom Labels]{\Tasks}[tasks]
If you want to change a single label inside a list, you can use the optional
argument of \cmd{task}. This will temporarily overwrite the default label.
\begin{beispiel}
 \begin{tasks}[style=itemize]
  \task a standard item
  \task another one
  \task[+] a different one
  \task and another one
 \end{tasks}
\end{beispiel}

\section{New Tasks}\secidx[Own Environments]{\Tasks}[tasks]
It is possible to add custom environments that work like the \code{tasks} environment.
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{NewTasks}[<options>]{<name>}\oa{<separator}\da{<cols>}\newline
   Define environment \ma{<name>} that uses \code{<separator>} to introduce a
   new item. Default for \code{<separator>} is \cmd{task}, default for
   \code{<cols>} is \code{1}. The \code{<options>} are the ones described in
   section~\ref{sec:tasks:options}.
\end{beschreibung}
The \code{tasks} environment is defined as follows:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \NewTasks{tasks}
\end{beispiel}

The separator does not have to be a control sequence:
\begin{beispiel}
 % preamble:
 % \usepackage{dingbat}
 \NewTasks[label=\footnotesize\leftthumbsup]{done}[*]
 \begin{done}
  * First task
  * Second Task
 \end{done}
\end{beispiel}
Although this might seem handy or even nice I strongly advice against using
something different than a command sequence. Remember that the items will be
split at \emph{every} occurrence of the separator. So in order to use the
separator (here for example for a starred variant of a command) within an item
it has to be hidden in braces. This is avoided of you use a command sequence
which even doesn't have to be defined.

Let's say you want a \code{choices} environment that has three columns in its
default state. You could do something like this:
\begin{beispiel}
 % preamble:
 % \NewTasks[style=multiplechoice]{choices}[\choice](3)
 % \newcommand*\correct{\PrintSolutionsTF{\checkedchoicebox}{\choicebox}}
 \begin{question}
 \begin{choices}
  \choice First choice
  \choice Second choice
  \choice[\correct] Third choice
 \end{choices}
 \end{question}
 \begin{solution}[print]
 \begin{choices}
  \choice First choice
  \choice Second choice
  \choice[\correct] Third choice
 \end{choices}
 \end{solution}
\end{beispiel}

The last example shows you two additional commands:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{choicebox} \choicebox
 \Befehl{checkedchoicebox} \checkedchoicebox
\end{beschreibung}

\section{Styling \Tasks}
Equivalent to the styling of \ExSheets{} \Tasks uses \paket{xtemplate} to
declare additional instances for the lists.

\subsection{The \code{tasks} Object}\label{sec:tasks}\secidx{The `tasks' Object}
The object that's defined by \Tasks is the `tasks' object.
This time there are four instances available for the one template (again
`default') that was defined.

\subsubsection{Available Options}
This section only lists the options that can be used when defining an instance
of the `default' template. The following subsections will give some examples
of their usage.

\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \DeclareTemplateInterface{tasks}{default}{3}
  {
    % option        : type      = default
    enumerate       : boolean   = true    ,
    label           : tokenlist           ,
    indent          : length    = 2.5em   ,
    label-format    : tokenlist = tsk[a]) ,
    label-width     : length    = 3ex     ,
    label-offset    : length    = 1ex     ,
    after-item-skip : skip      = 1ex plus 1ex minus 1ex
  }
\end{beispiel}

\subsubsection{Predefined Instances}
This is rather brief this time:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 % ALPHABETIZE: a) b) c)
 \DeclareInstance{tasks}{alphabetize}{default}{}
 % available when `load-tasks=true':
 % ITEMIZE:
 \DeclareInstance{tasks}{itemize}{default}
   { enumerate    = false }
 % ENUMERATE:
 \DeclareInstance{tasks}{enumerate}{default}
   { label-format = tsk. }
 % MULTIPLECHOICE:
 \DeclareInstance{tasks}{multiplechoice}{default}
   {
     enumerate    = false       ,
     label        = \choicebox  ,
   }
\end{beispiel}
\secidx*{The `tasks' Object}
\secidx*{\Tasks}[tasks]

\part{The \translations package (\trnsltversion)}
\label{part:translations}\secidx{\translations}[translations]
\section{Motivation}\secidx[Motivation]{\translations}[translations]
I wrote this package when I was in need for an expandable version of
\paket*{translator}'s \cmd{translate}. If you don't need that then there is no
need whatsoever for this package as \paket*{translator} from the \paket{beamer}
bundle provides all the functionality \translations does (except for:
\paket{translator}'s \cmd{translate} isn't expandable, \cmd{GetTranslation} is.).

\section{Requirements}\secidx[Requirements]{\translations}[translations]
\translations requires the \paket{etoolbox} package.

\section{Usage}\secidx[Usage]{\translations}[translations]
These are the commands provided by \translations:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{DeclareLanguage}{<lang>}\newline
   Declare a language that can be used by \translations. If the language already
   exists it will be silently redefined. This command can only be used in the preamble.
 \Befehl{DeclareLanguageAlias}{<lang2>}\ma{<lang1>}\newline
   Declares \code{<lang2>} to be an alias of \code{<lang1>}. If \code{<lang1>}
   doesn't exist yet a warning will be raised and it will be defined. This command
   can only be used in the preamble.
 \Befehl{DeclareLanguageDialect}{<dialect>}\ma{<lang>}\newline
   Declares \code{<dialect>} to be a dialect of language \code{<lang>}. If a
   translation for \code{<dialect>} is provided it is used by the translation
   macros. If there is none the corresponding translation for \code{<lang>} is
   used instead.
 \Befehl{NewTranslation}{<lang>}\ma{<key>}\ma{<translation>}\newline
   Defines a translation of key \code{<key>} for the language \code{<lang>}.
   An error will be raised if a translation of \code{<key>} already exists.
   This command can only be used in the preamble.
 \Befehl{RenewTranslation}{<lang>}\ma{<key>}\ma{<translation>}\newline
   Redefines a translation of key \code{<key>} for the language \code{<lang>}.
   An error will be raised if no translation of \code{<key>} exists.
   This command can only be used in the preamble.
 \Befehl{DeclareTranslation}{<lang>}\ma{<key>}\ma{<translation>}\newline
   Defines a translation of key \code{<key>} for the language \code{<lang>}.
   No error will be raised if a translation of \code{<key>} already exists.
   This command can only be used in the preamble.
 \Befehl{DeclareTranslationFallback}{<key>}\ma{<fallback>}\newline
   Defines a fallback translation for key \code{<key>} that is used in case no
   translation of \code{<key>} for the currently active language has been provided.
   No error will be raised if a fallback for \code{<key>} already exists.
   This command can only be used in the preamble.
 \expandable\Befehl{GetTranslationFor}{<lang>}\ma{<key>}\newline
   Fetches and prints the translation of \code{<key>} for the language \code{<lang>}.
   This command is expandable.
 \expandable\Befehl{GetTranslation}{<key>}\newline
   Fetches and prints the translation of \code{<key>} for the currently active
   language (as for example set by \paket{babel}). This command is expandable.
 \Befehl{SaveTranslationFor}{<cmd>}\ma{<lang>}\ma{<key>}\newline
   Fetches and saves the translation of \code{<key>} for the language \code{<lang>}
   in the macro \code{<cmd>}.
 \Befehl{SaveTranslation}{<cmd>}\ma{<key>}\newline
   Fetches and saves the translation of \code{<key>} for the currently active
   language (as for example set by \paket{babel}) in the macro \code{<cmd>}.
 \Befehl{LoadDictionary}{<name>}\newline
   Loads a file named \code{<name>-<lang>.trsl} where \code{<lang>} corresponds
   to the lowercase name of the current language as defined with
   \cmd{DeclareLanguage}. This file should contain the translations for the
   specified language.
 \Befehl{LoadDictionaryFor}{<lang>}\ma{<name>}\newline
   Loads a file named \code{<name>-<lang>.trsl}.
 \Befehl{DeclareDictTranslation}{<key>}\ma{<translation>}% TODO: beschreibung
\end{beschreibung}
Quite a number of languages already are defined, either directly or via an alias.
So, before you define a language you should take a look in \code{translations.sty}
if the language doesn't already exist.

Here is a small example of usage:
\begin{beispiel}
 % in the preamble:
 % \DeclareTranslation{English}{Kueche}{kitchen}
 % \DeclareTranslation{German}{Kueche}{K\"uche}
 % \DeclareTranslation{Spanish}{Kueche}{cocina}
 % \DeclareTranslation{French}{Kueche}{cuisine}
 
 \GetTranslation{Kueche}
 \SaveTranslation\kitchen{Kueche}
 \SaveTranslationFor\cuisine{french}{Kueche}

 \selectlanguage{ngerman}
 \GetTranslation{Kueche} \kitchen\ \GetTranslationFor{spanish}{Kueche}
 \cuisine
\end{beispiel}

There is also preliminary support for dialects:
\begin{beispiel}
 % in the preamble:
 % \DeclareTranslation{English}{foo}{foo}
 % \DeclareTranslation{British}{foo}{bar}
 \GetTranslationFor{English}{foo} \\
 \GetTranslationFor{British}{foo} \\
 \GetTranslationFor{American}{foo}
\end{beispiel}


A typical dictionary file should look as follows:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 % this is file housing-german.trsl
 \ProvideDictionaryFor{German}{housing}[<version info>]
 \DeclareDictTranslation{kitchen (housing)}{K\"uche}
 \DeclareDictTranslation{bathroom (housing)}{Bad}
 \DeclareDictTranslation{living room (housing)}{Wohnzimmer}
 \DeclareDictTranslation{bedroom (housing)}{Schlafzimmer}
 ...
 \endinput
\end{beispiel}
\secidx*{\translations}[translations]

\part{The \cntformats package (\cntfmtsversion)}
\label{part:cntformats}\secidx{\cntformats}[cntformats]
\section{Motivation}\secidx[Motivation]{\cntformats}[cntformats]
\cntformats provides a way to format counters with what I will call patterns.
This does not in any way effect the usual \LaTeXe\ way of treating counters and
does not use \cmd*{the<counter>} nor is it affected by the redefinition of them.

This package is aimed at package or class authors and probably not very useful
for document authors.

\section{Requirements}\secidx[Requirements]{\cntformats}[cntformats]
\cntformats requires the \paket{etoolbox} package.

\section{Example}\secidx[Example]{\cntformats}[cntformats]
A use case typically looks as follows:
\begin{beispiel}
 \ReadCounterPattern{se.sse}
\end{beispiel}
where the key \code{se} stands for the current value of the \code{section} counter
and \code{sse} for \code{subsection}, respectively. \code{se.sse} is an example
for what will be called \emph{pattern}. The keys for the counters can have optional
arguments that specify the format:
\begin{beispiel}
 \stepcounter{subsection}
 \ReadCounterPattern{se[R](sse[a])}
\end{beispiel}
\code{A} stands for \cmd{Alph} and \code{r} for \cmd{roman}. A complete list can
be found in table~\ref{tab:predefined:formats} on page~\pageref{tab:predefined:formats}.
As you can see you can insert arbitrary other tokens in a pattern that won't be
changed.

\section{Usage}\secidx[Usage]{\cntformats}[cntformats]
In order to make counters known to \cntformats the following commands are used:
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{AddCounterPattern}*[<module>]{<counter>}\ma{<pattern>}\newline
   This command will make the (existing) counter \code{<counter>} known to
   \cntformats and assign the pattern \code{<pattern>} to it.
 \Befehl{NewCounterPattern}*[<module>]{<counter>}\ma{<pattern>}\newline
   This command will create a new counter \code{<counter>}, make it known to
   \cntformats and assign the pattern \code{<pattern>} to it.
 \Befehl{ReadCounterFrom}[<module>]{<counter>}\ma{<internal cmd>}\newline
   If you use one of the commands above with the starred version the number for
   the pattern is not automatically fetched from the internal \cmd*{c@<counter>}.
   This can now be assigned with \cmd{ReadCounterFrom} where \code{<internal cmd>}
   is the macro that holds the number.
\end{beschreibung}
The commands above can only be used in the document preamble.

After the creation of these pattern markers one wants to be able to use them.
There are a number of macros that allow different aspects of usage.
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{ReadCounterPattern}[<module>]{<pattern>}\newline
   Reads, interprets and prints a pattern.
 \expandable\Befehl{@cntfmts@parsed@pattern}\newline
   After \cmd{ReadCounterPattern} has been used the current pattern interpretation
   is stored in this macro. The \emph{interpretation} is \emph{not} what is printed.
   See the examples below for details.
 \Befehl{ReadCounterPatternFrom}[<module>]{<macro that holds pattern>}\newline
   Reads, interprets and prints a pattern that's stored in a macro.\\
   Otherwise the same as \cmd{ReadCounterPattern}.
 \Befehl{SaveCounterPattern}{<cmd a>}\ma{<cmd b>}\ma{<pattern>}\newline
   Saves the \code{<pattern>} in \code{<cmd a>} and the interpreted pattern in
   \code{<cmd b>}.
 \Befehl{eSaveCounterPattern}[<module>]{<cmd a>}\ma{<cmd b>}\ma{<pattern>}\newline
   Saves the \code{<pattern>} in \code{<cmd a>} and the expanded pattern in
   \code{<cmd b>}.
 \Befehl{SaveCounterPatternFrom}[<module>]{<cmd a>}\ma{<cmd b>}\ma{<macro that
   holds pattern>}\newline
   Like \cmd{SaveCounterPattern} but reads the pattern from a macro.
 \Befehl{eSaveCounterPatternFrom}[<module>]{<cmd a>}\ma{<cmd b>}\ma{<macro that
   holds pattern>}\newline
   Like \cmd{eSaveCounterPattern} but reads the pattern from a macro.
\end{beschreibung}

The optional argument \code{<module>} should be specific for a package, say, so
that different patterns for the \code{section} for example don't interfer with
each other. If you leave the argument the default module \code{cntfmts} is used.

The \ExSheets packages uses the commands with the module \code{exsheets}.
You can find the following lines in \ExSheets' code:
\begin{beispiel}[code only]
 \AddCounterPattern*[exsheets]{section}{se}
 \ReadCounterFrom[exsheets]{section}
   \l__exsheets_counter_sec_int

 \NewCounterPattern*[exsheets]{question}{qu}
 \ReadCounterFrom[exsheets]{question}
   \l__exsheets_counter_qu_int
\end{beispiel}

Now let's see a short example that hopefully explains what the macros do:
\begin{beispiel}
 % preamble
 % \NewCounterPattern{testa}{ta}
 \setcounter{testa}{11}
 \ReadCounterPattern{ta}
 \ReadCounterPattern{ta[a]} \\
 \ttfamily\makeatletter
 \meaning\@cntfmts@parsed@pattern
 
 \bigskip
 \SaveCounterPattern\tmpa\tmpb{ta[a]}
 \meaning\tmpa \\
 \meaning\tmpb
 
 \bigskip
 \eSaveCounterPattern\tmpa\tmpb{ta[a]}
 \meaning\tmpa \\
 \meaning\tmpb
\end{beispiel}
You can see that somehow additional (empty) groups and a \cmd*{relax} found their
way into the interpreted and thus the expanded pattern. This is due to the fact
that reading optional arguments expandably isn't easy and must have some safety
net.

\section{Predefined Patterns and Formats}\secidx[Predefined Patterns]{\cntformats}[cntformats]
\cntformats predefines a number of pattern keys. These are listed in
table~\ref{tab:predefined:patterns}.

\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{center}
 \centering
 \captionof{table}{Predefined Patterns for the module \code{cntfmts}.}\label{tab:predefined:patterns}
 \begin{tabular}{>{\ttfamily}l>{\ttfamily}l}
  \toprule
   \normalfont\bfseries counter & \normalfont\bfseries pattern \\
  \midrule
   chapter       & ch \\
   section       & se \\
   subsection    & sse \\
   subsubsection & ssse \\
   paragraph     & pg \\
  \bottomrule
 \end{tabular}

 \captionof{table}{Predefined Formats}\label{tab:predefined:formats}
 \begin{tabular}{>{\ttfamily}ll}
  \toprule
   \normalfont\bfseries key & \normalfont\bfseries format \\
  \midrule
   1 & \cmd{arabic} \\
   a & \cmd{alph} \\
   A & \cmd{Alph} \\
   r & \cmd{roman} \\
   R & \cmd{Roman} \\
  \bottomrule
 \end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{multicols}

Table~\ref{tab:predefined:formats} lists the predefined formats. If you want you
can add own formats.
\begin{beschreibung}
 \Befehl{NewPatternFormat}{<pattern>}\ma{<format>}\newline
   \code{<format>} is a number presentation command like \cmd{@alph}. This
   command can only be used in the preamble.
\end{beschreibung}

\begin{beispiel}
 % preamble
 % \usepackage{alphalph}
 % \NewPatternFormat{aa}{\alphalph}
 \ReadCounterPattern{se[aa]}
\end{beispiel}
\secidx*{\cntformats}[cntformats]

\appendix
\part{Appendix}
\addsec{A List of all Solutions used in this Manual}\label{sec:solutions:list}
\SetupExSheets{headings=block,solutions-totoc}
\printsolutions

\RaggedRight\printbibliography

\setindexpreamble{Section titles are indicated \textbf{bold}, packages \textsf{sans
serif}, commands \code{\textbackslash\textcolor{code}{brown}}, options \textcolor
{key}{\code{yellow}} and modules \textcolor{module}{\code{blue}}.}
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