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Editorial: A handy reference for Class & Style?

Letters to the editor.

TUG2008; User group news; Math font videos

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The editors respond to a reader who wrote:

An article that I would certainly read with enormous interest would have the title "Compleat Idiot's guide to using .class and .sty files". In other words a blow-by-blow description of how to use those types of files for someone very new to LaTeX.

Wentao Zheng. This article introduces a method of drawing Go game positions with MetaPost. It begins with how the Go game is modeled in the MetaPost language, then explains the detailed implementation, and ends with some examples of Go game positions.

Lars Madsen. Designing a page style has long been a pain for novice users. Some parts are easy, others need good LaTeX knowledge. In this article we will present the Memoir way of dealing with page styles including new code added to the recent version of Memoir, that will reduce the pain to a mild annoyance.

Lance Carnes. The title of this opinion piece may seem a little strange. After all, if I keep my document source files safely stored away, and have a LaTeX system to format them, they should always work, right? Well, sometimes. More often than not, though, a set of LaTeX files more than a few years old will probably not format the same today as they did in the original edition.

In this column in each issue I muse on my wanderings around the TeX world. In my column in the 2007-2 issue I tried a small experiment with using ConTeXt. In this issue I describe an additional, quite extensive, effort to use ConTeXt -- to create a picture book for a "slide show" I was involved in creating a number of years ago.

How do I center only the last line of a paragraph?

How do I get the first and last entry of each index page in its header?

The sudokubundle and lasudoku styles are ways to have some fun with LaTeX, and at the same time learn more about how packages are used and developed. sudokubundle was created by Peter Wilson of Herries Press, and lasudoku was written by Zachary Catlin of Purdue University. We will show how to use these packages to print a sudoku puzzle, and solve it. These packages use LaTeX only, with no help from outside programs or scripts.