Is there a way to change the "Exam 1" to another word like "Homework 1" by passing arguments?
If not, is there a default template I can modify?
My last resort is to modify the built html files but it's not very convenient.
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The exams2html() function takes an argument template which defaults to "plain.html". This template is shipped with the exams package and contains:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Exam ##ID##</title>
<style type="text/css">
body{font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans;}
</style>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<h2>Exam ##ID##</h2>
##\exinput{exercises}##
</body>
</html>
The ##ID## is replaced by the ID (from 1 to n) and the ##\exinput{exercises}## is replaced by an ordered list <ol> containing the questions and optionally also the solutions. You can modify this template in any way you need and call it, say, homework.html. Then you can call:
exams2html(..., template = "/path/to/homework.html",
question = "<h4>Exercise</h4>", solution = FALSE)
which sets the template and also modifies the way the question is displayed while suppressing the solution.
Remark: The placeholders ##ID## and ##\exinput{exercises}## are a bit awkward (analogous to the placeholders in LaTeX templates for exams2pdf()) and not very flexible. It has been on my wishlist to make this more flexible, e.g., using {{mustache}} templating via the whisker package, but so far I didn't get round to tackle that.
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