Exercise title

[Vouivre]

Hi,

it would be very interesting to give a title to an exercise. For example:

Exercice 1. Speed of an airplane

Sometimes it's just a math exercise to solve, sometimes the exercise is related to a real life problem. In that case to add a title is a good point: it gives more sense.

I would add it as above. I still didn't use the point system, but I saw it's possible to customize the style. My proposal is to add a point or brackets next to "Exercise" and give the user the opportunity to customize the style of the title. Would it be possible to implement it ?

[Strauman]

Do you have a suggestion as to how the interface of this would be? I mean:

• Where would you specify the problem title?
• The part problem title I suggest would be specified used the \nextproblem command

[Strauman]

A temporary solution:

\DeclareExerciseCommand\problemtitle[1]{\stepcounter{problemcounter}%
	\strut{\vadjust{\vbox to 0pt{\hskip\pMarginLeft{\Large{\bfseries Exercice \theproblemcounter.} #1}}}}%
}
\makeset[nohead]{2}{\problemtitle{Speed of an airplane}, airplaneexercise}

[Vouivre]

Sorry, I didn't see your answer. I'll use your temporary solution if needed. But for me at the moment, the main problem is the point system.

I don't know how is your implementation. Perhaps it's easier for you in nextproblem, perhaps a parameter to the problem environment. The best is probably in the command \nextproblem.

[Vouivre]

After thinking about it, when you implement it, I would not choose something as "problemtitle". It was my first idea, but we could also:

• use a star to show that it's a difficult problem
• write "(optional)" if it's not for every students
• Simply "Hard" or "Medium" to give an idea of the difficulty of a problem.

So at the end it won't be always a title. It would be rather some informations one the problem, why not probleminfo or something like that. Maybe you have a better idea.

[Vouivre]

Some more consideration: after discovering the package exercisepoints, something like

\begin{problem}[Problem title]
\end{problem}

Would be very easy to use. I don't know if it's possible.

In between I can use your solution if necessary. My needs changed a little bit:

• I still need to write a title or "optional". In short: a string.
• Perhaps a picture of a calculator to show that a student can use a calculator for the exercise. Probably there is not much to do, I would use \includegraphics here.

[Strauman]

That exact syntax would not be possible because of limitations of the comments package. I think \nextproblem would be the place to put it.