Re: SPOILER: Solution to Perl Quiz of the Week #26 (Acrostic puzzle formatter)
Jon Ericson <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:39:18 -0700
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Greg Matheson <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Jon Ericson wrote: > >> Greg Matheson <[email protected]> writes: > >> > My solution puts two copies of the puzzle on one piece of B5 paper >> > using latex. > >> I tried to get this working, but ... > > It wasn't very robust. The most important problem was I wasn't > normalizing everything to upper case, I think. With the following > changes, I was able to print the example anagram in the quiz > question on one A4 piece of paper. However, a few rough edges > remain. That looks great. :-) >> I was thinking this might be an excellent application for PerlTex >> (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/perltex/). > > Thanks. I will have to check that out. Another possibility for formating would be: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/crosswrd/ It's intended for crossword puzzles, but I don't see any reason it could be used for acrostics as well. Jon