Adjusting Vertical Spacing & \pointsdroppedatright in Exam Document Class

[manchung214]

I am currently producing an exam paper. My friend suggests me using the exam document class. It's quite convenient most the time and I almost finish my work. But there are 2 things that I am not satisfied with:

(1)the default spacing between questions, parts, subquestions

How can I adjust the vertical spacing between questions, parts, subquestions?

(2)the \pointsdroppedatright function

I use the following 3 lines of commands to place the marks at the rightmargin of the textwhen a "\droppoints" is placed.

\pointsdroppedatright
\pointpoints{mark}{marks}
\marginpointname{ \points}

But actually I want the " (7 marks) " go to the rightmost of the text text range but not outside it and in the margin.
e.g.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?
_______________________space______________________(7 marks)

How can I do this?

 

[fatra2]

Hi there,

I have never used the exam.cls in LaTeX, so I cannot help you there.

But I can try to give some ideas that you might not have tried yet.

For your first problem, the vertical spacing in LaTeX can be done with the \vspace or \addvspace commands. You can use a negative value in this, if you want the spacing to be less than default.

Something like this:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

\vspace{-10cm}

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

For your second problem, I don't know the \pointsdroppedatright, but from the example your are giving, you might want to try something like this:

\hbox to 6cm{\leaders\hrule\hfil}

which gives a bottom line of 6cm long.

Hope this helps.

Cheers