[texhax] Change of Class name

Philip G. Ratcliffe philipratcliffe at tiscali.it
Mon Feb 20 01:47:49 CET 2006


> As you are aware there are two LaTeX classes for typesetting
> examination papers. One is in the directory exam and the other
> in examdesign. Both have the same class name, i.e., exam. This
> is causing problem in installation and using. Kindly mediate
> and change the name of the exam.cls in examdesign as
> exammcq.cls or mcqexam.cls as it is better handling the
> Multiple Choice Questions or exam2.cls.

Or how about simply examdesign.cls?

> The present nominclature of exam.cls by both the writers is
> creating problem. In ProTeXt after installing the examdesign
> exam.cls it is going to install the exam.cls in exam package.

I have to second this as I wasted more than a little time once trying to
figure out why the examdesign package didn't work.  I think I may even have
made a similar request myself too.

Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe



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