LaTeX Exam package: Align choices with oneparchoices

I'm a fairly new LaTeX user, so please excuse me if this is a simple newbie question.

I am using the exam package to create, well, an exam. I use both the choices and oneparchoices environments and I would like them to be aligned instead of the choices ones being far more indented. This MWE should illustrate my point:

documentclass{exam}



begin{document}



begin{questions}



   question

    Question 1



   begin{oneparchoices}

       correctchoice Answer 1

       choice Answer 2

       choice Answer 3

   end{oneparchoices}



   question

   Question 2



   begin{choices}

    correctchoice Answer 1

    choice Answer 2

    choice Answer 3

   end{choices}



   end{questions}



 end{document}

This is what I get.

I'm sure the more experienced users can solve this easily, but I'm stuck.

edited Jan 18 at 8:44

AboAmmar

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did you try the noindent command after begin{choice}?

– Yorgos
Jan 18 at 8:21

@Yorgos: As choices is a list environment noindent will not work. The indention is done using leftmargin not indent.

– Martin Scharrer♦
Jan 18 at 8:50

@Yorgos. Yes, I tried that. Should have mentioned it.

– andhewoulddarkenthememory
Jan 18 at 9:04

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I'm a fairly new LaTeX user, so please excuse me if this is a simple newbie question.

documentclass{exam}



begin{document}



begin{questions}



   question

    Question 1



   begin{oneparchoices}

       correctchoice Answer 1

       choice Answer 2

       choice Answer 3

   end{oneparchoices}



   question

   Question 2



   begin{choices}

    correctchoice Answer 1

    choice Answer 2

    choice Answer 3

   end{choices}



   end{questions}



 end{document}

This is what I get.

I'm sure the more experienced users can solve this easily, but I'm stuck.

edited Jan 18 at 8:44

AboAmmar

34.2k32884

asked Jan 18 at 8:07

andhewoulddarkenthememory

233

did you try the noindent command after begin{choice}?

– Yorgos
Jan 18 at 8:21

@Yorgos: As choices is a list environment noindent will not work. The indention is done using leftmargin not indent.

– Martin Scharrer♦
Jan 18 at 8:50

@Yorgos. Yes, I tried that. Should have mentioned it.

– andhewoulddarkenthememory
Jan 18 at 9:04

add a comment |

I'm a fairly new LaTeX user, so please excuse me if this is a simple newbie question.

documentclass{exam}



begin{document}



begin{questions}



   question

    Question 1



   begin{oneparchoices}

       correctchoice Answer 1

       choice Answer 2

       choice Answer 3

   end{oneparchoices}



   question

   Question 2



   begin{choices}

    correctchoice Answer 1

    choice Answer 2

    choice Answer 3

   end{choices}



   end{questions}



 end{document}

This is what I get.

I'm sure the more experienced users can solve this easily, but I'm stuck.

edited Jan 18 at 8:44

AboAmmar

34.2k32884

asked Jan 18 at 8:07

andhewoulddarkenthememory

233

I'm a fairly new LaTeX user, so please excuse me if this is a simple newbie question.

documentclass{exam}



begin{document}



begin{questions}



   question

    Question 1



   begin{oneparchoices}

       correctchoice Answer 1

       choice Answer 2

       choice Answer 3

   end{oneparchoices}



   question

   Question 2



   begin{choices}

    correctchoice Answer 1

    choice Answer 2

    choice Answer 3

   end{choices}



   end{questions}



 end{document}

This is what I get.

I'm sure the more experienced users can solve this easily, but I'm stuck.

indentation exam

edited Jan 18 at 8:44

AboAmmar

34.2k32884

asked Jan 18 at 8:07

andhewoulddarkenthememory

233

edited Jan 18 at 8:44

AboAmmar

34.2k32884

asked Jan 18 at 8:07

andhewoulddarkenthememory

233

edited Jan 18 at 8:44

AboAmmar

34.2k32884

edited Jan 18 at 8:44

AboAmmar

34.2k32884

edited Jan 18 at 8:44

AboAmmar

34.2k32884

asked Jan 18 at 8:07

andhewoulddarkenthememory

233

asked Jan 18 at 8:07

andhewoulddarkenthememory

233

asked Jan 18 at 8:07

andhewoulddarkenthememory

233

did you try the noindent command after begin{choice}?

– Yorgos
Jan 18 at 8:21

@Yorgos: As choices is a list environment noindent will not work. The indention is done using leftmargin not indent.

– Martin Scharrer♦
Jan 18 at 8:50

@Yorgos. Yes, I tried that. Should have mentioned it.

– andhewoulddarkenthememory
Jan 18 at 9:04

add a comment |

did you try the noindent command after begin{choice}?

– Yorgos
Jan 18 at 8:21

@Yorgos: As choices is a list environment noindent will not work. The indention is done using leftmargin not indent.

– Martin Scharrer♦
Jan 18 at 8:50

@Yorgos. Yes, I tried that. Should have mentioned it.

– andhewoulddarkenthememory
Jan 18 at 9:04

did you try the noindent command after begin{choice}?

– Yorgos
Jan 18 at 8:21

@Yorgos: As choices is a list environment noindent will not work. The indention is done using leftmargin not indent.

– Martin Scharrer♦
Jan 18 at 8:50

@Yorgos. Yes, I tried that. Should have mentioned it.

– andhewoulddarkenthememory
Jan 18 at 9:04

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Having a look at the source code of the exam class shows me that the left margin (realized as leftmargin in LaTeX) is set by choices using a hard coded line settowidth{leftmargin}{W.hskiplabelsephskip 2.5em}%, i.e. it is set to the width of W. + labelsep + 2.5em (em is relative to your font size).

I don't see an easy way to change that as there is no setting for this provided. You only could copy the definition of choices from exam.cls into your document, between makeatletter and makeatother, and change the above line to setlength{leftmargin}{<your prefered length>}. I would recommend here 15pt which is the normal parindent. Your can't apparently not use parindent directly as the list environment in choices seems to redefine it.

You also need to change newcommand to renewcommand of course.

documentclass{exam}



makeatletter

% from exam.cls, line 4107:

renewenvironment{choices}%

  {list{choicelabel}%

     {usecounter{choice}defmakelabel##1{hssllap{##1}}%

       setlength{leftmargin}{15pt}%

       defchoice{%

         if@correctchoice

           color@endgroup

           endgroup

         fi

         item

         do@choice@pageinfo

       } % choice

       defCorrectChoice{%

         if@correctchoice

           color@endgroup

           endgroup

         fi

         ifprintanswers

           ifhmode unskipunskipunvboxvoidb@x fi

           begingroup color@begingroup @correctchoicetrue

           CorrectChoice@Emphasis

         fi

         item

         do@choice@pageinfo

       } % CorrectChoice

       letcorrectchoiceCorrectChoice

       labelwidthleftmarginadvancelabelwidth-labelsep

       topsep=0pt

       partopsep=0pt

       choiceshook

     }%

  }%

  {if@correctchoice color@endgroup endgroup fi endlist}

makeatother



begin{document}



begin{questions}



   question

    Question 1



   begin{oneparchoices}

       correctchoice Answer 1

       choice Answer 2

       choice Answer 3

   end{oneparchoices}



   question

   Question 2



   begin{choices}

    correctchoice Answer 1

    choice Answer 2

    choice Answer 3

   end{choices}



   end{questions}



 end{document}

enter image description here

edited Jan 18 at 8:58

answered Jan 18 at 8:49

Martin Scharrer♦

202k47645821

Thanks a lot! That is well beyond my current knowledge of LaTeX. But with the code you provided I got it to work. :)

– andhewoulddarkenthememory
Jan 18 at 9:05

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documentclass{exam}



makeatletter

% from exam.cls, line 4107:

renewenvironment{choices}%

  {list{choicelabel}%

     {usecounter{choice}defmakelabel##1{hssllap{##1}}%

       setlength{leftmargin}{15pt}%

       defchoice{%

         if@correctchoice

           color@endgroup

           endgroup

         fi

         item

         do@choice@pageinfo

       } % choice

       defCorrectChoice{%

         if@correctchoice

           color@endgroup

           endgroup

         fi

         ifprintanswers

           ifhmode unskipunskipunvboxvoidb@x fi

           begingroup color@begingroup @correctchoicetrue

           CorrectChoice@Emphasis

         fi

         item

         do@choice@pageinfo

       } % CorrectChoice

       letcorrectchoiceCorrectChoice

       labelwidthleftmarginadvancelabelwidth-labelsep

       topsep=0pt

       partopsep=0pt

       choiceshook

     }%

  }%

  {if@correctchoice color@endgroup endgroup fi endlist}

makeatother



begin{document}



begin{questions}



   question

    Question 1



   begin{oneparchoices}

       correctchoice Answer 1

       choice Answer 2

       choice Answer 3

   end{oneparchoices}



   question

   Question 2



   begin{choices}

    correctchoice Answer 1

    choice Answer 2

    choice Answer 3

   end{choices}



   end{questions}



 end{document}

enter image description here

edited Jan 18 at 8:58

answered Jan 18 at 8:49

Martin Scharrer♦

202k47645821

Thanks a lot! That is well beyond my current knowledge of LaTeX. But with the code you provided I got it to work. :)

– andhewoulddarkenthememory
Jan 18 at 9:05

add a comment |

documentclass{exam}



makeatletter

% from exam.cls, line 4107:

renewenvironment{choices}%

  {list{choicelabel}%

     {usecounter{choice}defmakelabel##1{hssllap{##1}}%

       setlength{leftmargin}{15pt}%

       defchoice{%

         if@correctchoice

           color@endgroup

           endgroup

         fi

         item

         do@choice@pageinfo

       } % choice

       defCorrectChoice{%

         if@correctchoice

           color@endgroup

           endgroup

         fi

         ifprintanswers

           ifhmode unskipunskipunvboxvoidb@x fi

           begingroup color@begingroup @correctchoicetrue

           CorrectChoice@Emphasis

         fi

         item

         do@choice@pageinfo

       } % CorrectChoice

       letcorrectchoiceCorrectChoice

       labelwidthleftmarginadvancelabelwidth-labelsep

       topsep=0pt

       partopsep=0pt

       choiceshook

     }%

  }%

  {if@correctchoice color@endgroup endgroup fi endlist}

makeatother



begin{document}



begin{questions}



   question

    Question 1



   begin{oneparchoices}

       correctchoice Answer 1

       choice Answer 2

       choice Answer 3

   end{oneparchoices}



   question

   Question 2



   begin{choices}

    correctchoice Answer 1

    choice Answer 2

    choice Answer 3

   end{choices}



   end{questions}



 end{document}

enter image description here

edited Jan 18 at 8:58

answered Jan 18 at 8:49

Martin Scharrer♦

202k47645821

Thanks a lot! That is well beyond my current knowledge of LaTeX. But with the code you provided I got it to work. :)

– andhewoulddarkenthememory
Jan 18 at 9:05

add a comment |

documentclass{exam}



makeatletter

% from exam.cls, line 4107:

renewenvironment{choices}%

  {list{choicelabel}%

     {usecounter{choice}defmakelabel##1{hssllap{##1}}%

       setlength{leftmargin}{15pt}%

       defchoice{%

         if@correctchoice

           color@endgroup

           endgroup

         fi

         item

         do@choice@pageinfo

       } % choice

       defCorrectChoice{%

         if@correctchoice

           color@endgroup

           endgroup

         fi

         ifprintanswers

           ifhmode unskipunskipunvboxvoidb@x fi

           begingroup color@begingroup @correctchoicetrue

           CorrectChoice@Emphasis

         fi

         item

         do@choice@pageinfo

       } % CorrectChoice

       letcorrectchoiceCorrectChoice

       labelwidthleftmarginadvancelabelwidth-labelsep

       topsep=0pt

       partopsep=0pt

       choiceshook

     }%

  }%

  {if@correctchoice color@endgroup endgroup fi endlist}

makeatother



begin{document}



begin{questions}



   question

    Question 1



   begin{oneparchoices}

       correctchoice Answer 1

       choice Answer 2

       choice Answer 3

   end{oneparchoices}



   question

   Question 2



   begin{choices}

    correctchoice Answer 1

    choice Answer 2

    choice Answer 3

   end{choices}



   end{questions}



 end{document}

enter image description here

edited Jan 18 at 8:58

answered Jan 18 at 8:49

Martin Scharrer♦

202k47645821

documentclass{exam}



makeatletter

% from exam.cls, line 4107:

renewenvironment{choices}%

  {list{choicelabel}%

     {usecounter{choice}defmakelabel##1{hssllap{##1}}%

       setlength{leftmargin}{15pt}%

       defchoice{%

         if@correctchoice

           color@endgroup

           endgroup

         fi

         item

         do@choice@pageinfo

       } % choice

       defCorrectChoice{%

         if@correctchoice

           color@endgroup

           endgroup

         fi

         ifprintanswers

           ifhmode unskipunskipunvboxvoidb@x fi

           begingroup color@begingroup @correctchoicetrue

           CorrectChoice@Emphasis

         fi

         item

         do@choice@pageinfo

       } % CorrectChoice

       letcorrectchoiceCorrectChoice

       labelwidthleftmarginadvancelabelwidth-labelsep

       topsep=0pt

       partopsep=0pt

       choiceshook

     }%

  }%

  {if@correctchoice color@endgroup endgroup fi endlist}

makeatother



begin{document}



begin{questions}



   question

    Question 1



   begin{oneparchoices}

       correctchoice Answer 1

       choice Answer 2

       choice Answer 3

   end{oneparchoices}



   question

   Question 2



   begin{choices}

    correctchoice Answer 1

    choice Answer 2

    choice Answer 3

   end{choices}



   end{questions}



 end{document}

enter image description here

edited Jan 18 at 8:58

answered Jan 18 at 8:49

Martin Scharrer♦

202k47645821

edited Jan 18 at 8:58

answered Jan 18 at 8:49

Martin Scharrer♦

202k47645821

answered Jan 18 at 8:49

Martin Scharrer♦

202k47645821

answered Jan 18 at 8:49

Martin Scharrer♦

202k47645821

Thanks a lot! That is well beyond my current knowledge of LaTeX. But with the code you provided I got it to work. :)

– andhewoulddarkenthememory
Jan 18 at 9:05

add a comment |

Thanks a lot! That is well beyond my current knowledge of LaTeX. But with the code you provided I got it to work. :)

– andhewoulddarkenthememory
Jan 18 at 9:05

Thanks a lot! That is well beyond my current knowledge of LaTeX. But with the code you provided I got it to work. :)

– andhewoulddarkenthememory
Jan 18 at 9:05

add a comment |

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