\AMCcode doesn't work with newer version (Bug #534)

Do you have a recommended method for running two different versions of AMC? It's a hassle upgrading and downgrading to test.

• clone AMC mercurial repository in, say, ~/amc-1
• checkout to some AMC version (or mercurial revision)
• build AMC with make version_files ; make
• use make local to install links to your build.

You can repeat the same with ~/amc-2 and another version, and use make local in one or another of the two directories to switch to another version.
This works in a debian environment: I'm not sure the links are created in the right place for other environments, you will have to create other links if not.

Marking doesn't seem to work at all in 1.3.0, even if I start a whole project from scratch. The problem is, \scoring with questionmulti doesn't work in 1.2.1

LaTeX includes the style file from /home/ddixon/texmf/tex/latex/AMC/automultiplechoice.sty. Can you check that the version of this style file always matches the version of AMC, whatever this version is?

Excellent, thanks!

That's a local version I forgot about. sudo apt-get finds it and replaced it last time I rolled back to 1.2.1, but installing from your ppa doesn't. So I deleted it, and now 1.3.0 marks (though still not correctly on \AMCOpen), and, HOORAY, it finds the \AMCcode for identification!!

The problem with \AMCOpen, that I was hoping upgrading to 1.3.0 would fix, is this: I want' to be able to enter a score between 0 and 15 by having only 5 boxes (0,1,2,4,8) and scoring with the sum. Marking only ever counts the boxes and ignore the \scoring.

\begin{questionmultx}{Graph Problem}
\AMCOpen{lines=10, lineheight=0.6cm}{\wrongchoice[0]{0}\scoring{0}\wrongchoice[1]{1}\scoring{1}\wrongchoice[2]{2}\scoring{2}\wrongchoice[4]{4}\scoring{4}\correctchoice[8]{8}\scoring{8}}
\end{questionmultx}

I'm still struggling with installing multiple versions of AMC from mercurial, btw. I'm trying to build 1.2.1 from the repo checkout, and after installing many libs, it fails on this

rsvg-convert -w 24 -h 24 img_src/important.svg -o html/images/important.png
Error saving to file: html/images/important.png
Makefile:46: recipe for target 'html/images/important.png' failed
make[4]: *** [html/images/important.png] Error 1
rm auto-multiple-choice.en.ext auto-multiple-choice.en.tex auto-multiple-choice.ja.html auto-multiple-choice.fr.man auto-multiple-choice.fr.html auto-multiple-choice.ja.man auto-multiple-choice.en.html auto-multiple-choice.en.man auto-multiple-choice.ja.ext auto-multiple-choice.fr.ext auto-multiple-choice.fr.tex

David Dixon wrote:

Excellent, thanks!

That's a local version I forgot about. sudo apt-get finds it and replaced it last time I rolled back to 1.2.1, but installing from your ppa doesn't. So I deleted it, and now 1.3.0 marks (though still not correctly on \AMCOpen), and, HOORAY, it finds the \AMCcode for identification!!

The problem with \AMCOpen, that I was hoping upgrading to 1.3.0 would fix, is this: I want' to be able to enter a score between 0 and 15 by having only 5 boxes (0,1,2,4,8) and scoring with the sum. Marking only ever counts the boxes and ignore the \scoring.

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Never mind about \AMCOpen - that was a construct I found in a forum, but re-reading the documentation, I see I have to include bon/mauvais (b=,m=) for it two work in questionmult. So it works now.

Incidentally, the 2015 documentation has a copyright notice on page ii that says (c) 2008-2013, so I didn't realize it's newer than the 2013 revision that I had.

the pull-down selectors don't format correctly in 1.3.0: the text is black on a black background

Do you have the same issue with this example ?
https://github.com/Programmica/perl-gtk3-examples/blob/master/combobox.pl

The other weird thing in 1.3.0 is that it scores \AMCCode with something like X/1

Can you check that Edit/Preferences/Annotation/Symbols/Also annotate informative questions is not ticked?

Yes, "annotate informative" was checked. So I unchecked it! Thanks!!.

The perl doesn't compile: Can't locate Gtk3.pm

Can't locate Gtk3.pm

You need to install the perl Gtk3 module (with debian/ubuntu, use the libgtk3-perl package).

The combobox perl works fine. You can resolve this issue, btw, as user error.