New on CTAN: tasks
Date: July 21, 2014 2:47:31 PM CEST
Clemens Niederberger submitted the
tasks
package.
Version number: 0.10
License type: lppl
Summary description: Horizontally columned lists
Announcement text:
The package is not really new as it used to be distributed as part of the `exsheets' bundle. As of version 0.10 it is distributed as a package of its own. New features: - new option `debug' - new option `column-sep - new: optional bang to a \task forces an item to use a full line (\task!) - new: optional star to a \task forces an item to use the complete remaining line (\task*); the star has itself has an optional argument for specifying the number of columns to span (\task*(<num>))
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tasks/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tasks We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
The package is not really new as it used to be distributed as part of the `exsheets' bundle. As of version 0.10 it is distributed as a package of its own. New features: - new option `debug' - new option `column-sep - new: optional bang to a \task forces an item to use a full line (\task!) - new: optional star to a \task forces an item to use the complete remaining line (\task*); the star has itself has an optional argument for specifying the number of columns to span (\task*(<num>))
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tasks/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tasks We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
tasks – Horizontally columned lists
The reason for the creation of the tasks environment was an unwritten agreement in German maths textbooks (especially (junior) high school textbooks) to organize exercises in columns counting horizontally rather than vertically. This is what the tasks package helps to achieve.
| Package | tasks |
| Version | 1.4a 2022-01-08 |
| Copyright | 2013–2022 Clemens Niederberger |
| Maintainer | Clemens Niederberger |