CTAN update: crossword

Date: May 25, 2020 9:12:42 PM CEST

Gerd Neugebauer submitted an update to the crossword package. Version number: 1.10 2020-05-23 License type: other-free Summary description: Typeset crossword puzzles Announcement text:

This is a maintenance release. - Deprecated font changing macros have been modernized. - Minor cleaning of the build files.

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Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Ina Dau --

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

CTAN update: crossword

crossword – Typeset crossword puzzles

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