Weird behavior in the case of text in element but outside question

[luclaurent]

Many authors of AMC quizz add text outside questions and automultiplechoice will render it correctly but `amc2moodle' seems to have difficulties to consider it (which can be normal). However in certains cases question(s) could not be imported in Moodle.

The following example does not work.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[francais,bloc,correc]{automultiplechoice}

\begin{document}

\element{test}{
  uioygbjkbk, hhHLJmq jkjlkqjs qjlkjqs lk
  aa
  \begin{question}{qtest}
    Loui
    \begin{reponses}
      \mauvaise{ hein}
      \mauvaise{oh}
      \bonne{ah}
      \mauvaise{ouf}
    \end{reponses}
  \end{question}
}
\exemplaire{1}{
  \restituegroupe{test}
}
\end{document}

One solution seems to add a linebreak before the `\begin{question}' command:

  \documentclass{article}
  \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[francais,bloc,correc]{automultiplechoice}

  \begin{document}
  \element{test}{
    uioygbjkbk, hhHLJmq jkjlkqjs qjlkjqs lk
    aa

    \begin{question}{qtest}
      Loui
      \begin{reponses}
        \mauvaise{ hein}
        \mauvaise{oh}
        \bonne{ah}
        \mauvaise{ouf}
      \end{reponses}
    \end{question}
  }
  \exemplaire{1}{
    \restituegroupe{test}
  }
  \end{document}

The XML formatter is able to isolate the text before the \begin{question} in a paragraph <p>...</p> and this syntax seems to be accepted by Moodle.

amc2moodle v2.9.0 was used to diagnose this trouble.

[luclaurent]

Notice that we can decide to remove the text before the question if it is preferable but we need to add a warning. A minimal behavior is that the question can be imported in Moodle (with or without the text in the element block).

[nennigb]

I will have a look on that. The problem is that the actual mapping between tex \element and moodle category is too crude. The first argument is mapped into category name and it's fine, the second one contains the questions and everything the user want. For instance, some amc users use \element as common description for all the questions from the block (see https://github.com/nennigb/amc2moodle/issues/20#issuecomment-653435909)

The latexml output for your exemple are

• With the line break

  <document xmlns="http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML">
  <resource src="LaTeXML.css" type="text/css"/>
  <resource src="ltx-article.css" type="text/css"/>
  <note class="amc_categorie">test</note>
  <para xml:id="p1">
  <p>uioygbjkbk, hhHLJmq jkjlkqjs qjlkjqs lk
  aa</p>
  </para>
  <note class="amc_question" role="qtest"><inline-para>
    <para xml:id="p2">
      <p>Loui
  <note class="amc_mauvaise"> hein</note>
  <note class="amc_mauvaise">oh</note>
  <note class="amc_bonne">ah</note>
  <note class="amc_mauvaise">ouf</note></p>
    </para>
  </inline-para></note>
  </document>

• without the line break, we get a nested structure since the question belong to the paragraph

  <document xmlns="http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML">
  <resource src="LaTeXML.css" type="text/css"/>
  <resource src="ltx-article.css" type="text/css"/>
  <note class="amc_categorie">test</note>
  <para xml:id="p1">
  <p>uioygbjkbk, hhHLJmq jkjlkqjs qjlkjqs lk
  aa
  <note class="amc_question" role="qtest"><inline-para>
        <para xml:id="p1.p1">
          <p>Loui
  <note class="amc_mauvaise"> hein</note>
  <note class="amc_mauvaise">oh</note>
  <note class="amc_bonne">ah</note>
  <note class="amc_mauvaise">ouf</note></p>
        </para>
      </inline-para></note></p>
  </para>
  </document>

Some possible workarounds/remarks,

• [] Just mention the problem in README ;-)
• [] Detect and warn user during conversion. See if it remains some xml elements after questions extraction ? The difficulties is there is no sementic in this field, just paragraph...; element has <para> children ?
• [] Remove or put additional stuffs in Description Question, will it works all the time ?
• [] Create examples without \elements in the question bank, to be sure it works.
• [] Still robust if there is text in several places : text/question1/text/question2/...
• [] DefConstructor('\element{}{}',"<ltx:note class='amc_categorie'>#1</ltx:note>#2"); Just drop everything out. Not very robust; break the hierarchical link between \element and its non question children
• [] Advice to use \QuestionIndicative in magic comment...

  \element{test}{
  %amc2moodle \begin{question}{fragment} \QuestionIndicative
  uioygbjkbk, hhHLJmq jkjlkqjs qjlkjqs lk
  aa
  %amc2moodle \end{question}
  \begin{question}{qtest}
  Loui
  \begin{reponses}
    \mauvaise{ hein}
    \mauvaise{oh}
    \bonne{ah}
    \mauvaise{ouf}
  \end{reponses}
  \end{question}
  }

• [] Create a moodleExclude environment, that can be use between magic comments