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The 2008-2 issue of The PracTeX Journal is now online. Below is the
Table of Contents.<br><br>
The next issue has the theme "LaTeX and TeX on the Web".
Let us know your favorite LaTeX or TeX web site, and if you would like to
contribute an article or note.
<a href="mailto:pracjourn@tug.org" eudora="autourl">
mailto:pracjourn@tug.org</a> <br><br>
We hope you enjoy this issue.<br><br>
Best regards,<br>
Lance Carnes<br>
Editor<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/">The PracTeX Journal</a><br>
An online journal containing articles and news about TeX, LaTeX, and
related publishing tools. <br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/editor/">From the
Editor</a><br>
In this issue <br><br>
Next issue: LaTeX and TeX on the Web <br><br>
Editorial: A handy reference for Class & Style?<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/feedback/">Feedback from
readers</a><br>
Letters to the editor.<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/news/">News from Around</a><br>
TUG2008; User group news; Math font videos<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/wholeissue/">Whole Issue PDF for
PracTeX Journal 2008-2</a><br>
The entire issue as a single PDF file (4.7MB).<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/clsandsty/">Class & Style
An introduction</a><br>
The editors respond to a reader who wrote: <br><br>
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.<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/zheng/">Go Game Positions with
METAPOST</a><br>
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.<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/madsen/">Page Styles on steroids
(or, memoir makes page styling easy)</a><br>
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.<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/carnes1/">Opinion: Enduring
LaTeX documents</a><br>
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.<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/walden/">Travels in TeX Land: A
bigger experiment with ConTeXt</a><br>
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.<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/asknelly/">Ask Nelly:
Q&A</a><br>
How do I center only the last line of a paragraph? <br><br>
How do I get the first and last entry of each index page in its
header?<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/distract/">Distractions: Fun
packages sudoku solvers</a><br>
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.<br><br>
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