CTAN update: crossword
Date: September 13, 2009 5:02:25 PM CEST
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: cwpuzzle
Version number: 1.8
Author's name: Gerd Neugebauer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gene/crossword
Summary description: cwpuzzle.sty - a LaTeX package for typesetting crossword puzzles
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
MORE CELL-BASED PUZZLES In addition to crossword puzzles Sudoku and Kakuro are supported. They are also grid-based. Thus it was easy to facilitate the infrastructure already in place for them.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gene/crossword . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/crossword (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
MORE CELL-BASED PUZZLES In addition to crossword puzzles Sudoku and Kakuro are supported. They are also grid-based. Thus it was easy to facilitate the infrastructure already in place for them.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gene/crossword . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/crossword (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
crossword – Typeset crossword puzzles
An extended grid-based puzzle package, designed to take all input (both grid and clues) from the same file. The package can typeset grids with holes in them (for advertisements, or other sorts of stuff), and can deal with several sorts of puzzle:
- The classical puzzle contains numbers for the words and clues for the words to be filled in.
- The numbered puzzle contains numbers in each cell where identical numbers represent identical letters. The goal is to find out which number corresponds to which letter.
- The fill-in type of puzzle consists of a grid and a list of words. The goal is to place all words in the grid.
- Sudoku and Kakuro puzzles involve filling in grids of numbers according to their own rules.
Format may be block-separated, or separated by thick lines. Input to the package is somewhat redundant: specification of the grid is separate from specification of the clues (if they're necessary). The author considers this style both ‘natural’ and robust.
| Package | crossword |
| Version | 1.11 2022-09-13 |
| Copyright | 1995–2022 Gerd Neugebauer |
| Maintainer | Gerd Neugebauer |