Feature request: exercisegroup inside a worksheet

[Alex-Jordan]

One can use worksheet layout to achieve something that looks like an exercisegroup. For a few reasons, I would still ideally like to have exercisegroup available inside a worksheet. Reasons include:

• preserving structure on exercises that naturally belong together
• ease of converting, say a 2-column layout to a 3-column layout
• ease of converting an "exercises" into a "worksheet" and vice versa
• cross-referencing or repeating a block from a worksheet into an exercises somewhere else

[rbeezer]

In the code, "worksheet exercises" are a thing, and "divisional exercises" are a thing. At first blush, this would blur that line, and I do not even want to think about the consequences in LaTeX for tcolorbox work.

Each additional amount of flexibility for exercises introduces complexity and results in long-running bugs that are difficult to track down. Decisions about worksheets were made a long time ago and progress has been slow. So while your reasons may be good ones I think there are many other things to prioritize ahead of this, and I don't think I will ever find the enthusiasm to be involved with the many changes this would require.

[Alex-Jordan]

The issue was meant to record a wish list item for my future self. Maybe "feature request" is a bad phrase. But is there no enthusiasm to review a PR some day? It could be small and not have any direct effect on the things you mention being concerned about. Just an XML transform during assembly that converts worksheet/exercisegroup to sbsgroup in a good way. Or maybe I will learn those are famous last words...

[rbeezer]

Hadn't thought about an assembly conversion to a sbsgroup. That's a more radical transformation, but perhaps entirely rational?

The lack of enthusiasm is for a whole lot of really hard work, only to earn really tough bugs that surface 8 months later....