{"id":2126,"date":"2015-07-19T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T20:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2015-07-19T21:09:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T21:09:05","slug":"questionnaires-in-latex-using-the-paperandpencil-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/?p=2126","title":{"rendered":"Questionnaires in LaTeX using the paperandpencil package"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tI've been using the paperandpencil<\/a> (.pdf document) package for creating questionnaires in LaTeX. 1<\/sup><\/a> I thought the package worked very well, but just a couple of notes to myself which others may find useful. I've found it works well, but a couple of things were unclear. The .pdf version of the manual displays but the homepage linked from other sites no longer appears to work. However I have just found a download page on the QDDS website.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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  1. \n\t\tThe file paperandpencil.sty needs to place in the same directory as the .tex file. I had trouble finding it, but found the code over on Github<\/a>. I pasted this into a text editor, saved it as paperandpencil.sty, and put it in the same directory as my .tex file.\n\t<\/li>\n
  2. \n\t\tThe document class needs to be {scrreprt}. This is in the first page documentation, but I managed to miss it.\n\t<\/li>\n
  3. \n\t\tTo set page numbers \\pagestyle{plain} is required and the \\pagenumbering and \\setcounter options need to be set.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \n\tA minimal code example here:\n<\/p>\n

    \r\n\\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{scrreprt}\r\n\\usepackage{paperandpencil}\r\n\\usepackage[top=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm,left=2cm,right=2cm]{geometry}\r\n\\pagestyle{plain}\r\n\\begin{document}\r\n  \\pagenumbering{arabic}\r\n  \\setcounter{page}{1}\r\n  \\section*{Title goes here}\r\n\\end{document}\r\n<\/pre>\n\n\n