[samigo-team] [Building Sakai] Including a space between the choice key and answer in a MC question

[Steve Swinsburg]

Yes a better solution to this would be a CSS fix rather than a hardcoded
character fix. CSS can be overridden and adjusted easily, hardcoded chars
are impossible to override.

cheers,
Steve


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Shawn Foster <sfoster9 at uwo.ca> wrote:

> Sorry, David, but I don't agree with this patch: adding an arbitrary
> number of physical spaces to add spacing to a page is neither semantic
> nor flexible.
>
> I see in Sakai trunk that this problem is already fixed: as John already
> mentioned, answers are automatically wrapped in the mcAnswerText span,
> which adds some spacing by default with the inline-table display. If
> more spacing is desired, the class's style can be overwritten by adding
> margin-left (as Steve suggested) to the tool_sam.css stylesheet or with
> the site's skin.
>
> -Shawn
>
> --
> Shawn Foster
> Instructional Technology Support and Application Development
> Western University
> London, Ontario, Canada
>
> On 13-12-12 6:14 PM, Anand Mehta wrote:
> > Thank you everyone for the suggestions. David, we tried your patch and
> it looks great!
> >
> > Karen, I have created a JIRA (
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAM-2258) and attached David's patch
> to it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Anand
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >   From: David P Bauer <dbauer1 at udayton.edu>
> > To: John Ansorge <ansorgej at ohsu.edu>
> > Cc: Sakai Dev <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>; Samigo Team <
> samigo-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: [samigo-team] [Building Sakai] Including a space between
> the choice key and answer in a MC question
> >
> >
> >
> > I recently did a ticket for UD that added two non-breaking spaces before
> the answer for multiple choice questions. I've attached a patch to this
> reply. Would this solve your problem?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:51 AM, John Ansorge <ansorgej at ohsu.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > If you’re running a relatively recent version of Samigo, multiple choice
> answer text is wrapped in a span with the .mcAnswerText style. You could
> probably just add some padding or margin on the left to that style.
> >>
> >> From:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Steve Swinsburg
> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 7:09 PM
> >> To: Karen Tsao
> >> Cc: Sakai Dev; Samigo Team
> >> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Including a space between the choice key
> and answer in a MC question
> >>
> >> What is the markup? Could you just use some carefully targetted CSS to
> add a margin left?
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Karen Tsao <ktsao at stanford.edu>
> wrote:
> >> Hi Anand,
> >> I could not think of any easy workaround. Let's see if there are other
> users can help.
> >> I agree that there should be a space between the choice key and answer.
> Can you please log a JIRA for this issue?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Karen
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Anand Mehta <anand.mehta at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to automatically have a space between the choice key
> and answer in a MC question? For example, the attached screenshot shows the
> first choice as "A.2". We would like it to appear as "A. 2". Right now the
> instructors have to manually include a
> >   space for each choice. I searched in JIRA but did not find anything
> related to this.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Anand
> >>>
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