uob-cs-exam

University of Bristol CS Exam template. Hopefully compatible with both Windows and Linux/Unix.

Based on a template first put together by Martijn Stam and Nicolas Wu in 2017/18.

Cover page ('rubric page') prepared according to 2023/24 regulations given by the exams office at

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/directory/exams/staff/exam-papers/

Requires xelatex and latexmk. Both come by default with e.g. MikTeX.

On latexmk

The repo comes with a latexmkrc file which specifies certain options that latexmk must use. In particular, to get the auto-counting of marks and questions to work

• we must use xelatex
• we must use force mode (-f)

All of these will be automatically picked up by the latexmk script from the latexmkrc file.

On mlmodern

This template uses a slightly boldened version of Latin Modern which is less 'spindly' than the default one. This makes it look more like the original design of Donald Knuth's Computer Modern, as it used to be printed in the 1980s.

This is achieved by importing the mlmodern package.

If this font does not work with your TeX distribution, go into uob-cs-exam.cls and comment out the line

\usepackage{mlmodern}

e.g. by inserting a % before it.

Compilation

Windows

To compile under Windows, run

build.ps1 exam.tex

where exam.tex is the exam file. This will create a file exam-answers.tex with solutions printed, and compile both to pdf.

Linux/Unix

To compile on a Linux/Unix system, run

make exam.tex
make exam-answers.tex

where exam.tex is the exam file. This will create a file exam-answers.tex with solutions printed, and compile both to pdf.

Currently make all runs the above two commands, i.e. assumes that exam.tex is the source file in use.