ou-tma and ou-tma-sup Packages

Versions

v1.21.4 (2025/11/17) v0.12 (2025/10/28)

Author

Geoff Riley (geoffr@adaso.com)

License

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c or later.

Description

The ou-tma and ou-tma-sup packages provide macros and environments to assist in writing and answering Tutor Marked Assessments (TMAs) for Open University courses. They simplify the formatting of questions, parts, subparts, and includes useful mathematical commands. A SampleTMA.tex file is now provided as an example of usage.

Repository

https://github.com/GeoffRiley/tma/

Compiling and Installation

If the ou-tma.sty and ou-tma-sup.sty files are not provided, and you have, instead, ou-tma.dtx and ou-tma.ins, then follow this procedure:

• Compile the ou-tma package with pdflatex ou-tma.ins. This will create the ou-tma.sty and ou-tma-sup.sty files.
• Compile the ou-tma documentation with:
• • pdflatex ou-tma.dtx (repeated several times)
• • makeindex -s gglo.ist -o ou-tma-chg-tma.gls ou-tma-chg-tma.glo
• • makeindex -s gglo.ist -o ou-tma-chg-sup.gls ou-tma-chg-sup.glo
• • makeindex -s gglo.ist -o ou-tma-chg-chg.gls ou-tma-chg-chg.glo
• • makeindex -s gind.ist ou-tma
• • pdflatex ou-tma.dtx (several times again)

The ou-tma.sty and ou-tma-sup.sty files should be placed in an appropriate location within the TeX directory structure. For example in a directory such as tex/latex/ou-tma. The file doc-changes.sty is only used for formatting this documentation and may safely be ignore thereafter.

Usage

Include the package(s) in your document:

\usepackage[options]{ou-tma}

or

\usepackage[options]{ou-tma}
\usepackage[options]{ou-tma-sup}