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<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn">The PracTeX Journal</a><br>
<b><u>Issue 2010, Number 2<br>
</b>The online journal of the TeX Users Group<br>
ISSN 1556-6994<br><br>
</u><a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/editor.html">In this issue -
LaTeX for teachers</a><br>
Editor's introduction to the issue.<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/news.html">News from
Around</a><br>
News items from the LaTeX and TeX community.<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/wholeissue.html">Whole Issue PDF
for PracTeX Journal 2010-2</a><br>
A PDF file of the journal issue.<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/rosa.html">Sweave - Interface
entre R e LaTeX (Portuguese)</a><br>
Cassiano Sousa Rosa, Og DeSouza. Resumo: É comum depararmos com o
problema da gravação em arquivos separados dos comandos e dos gráficos,
se o sistema estatístico R é utilizado. Outro problema seria localizar o
código que originou aquele determinado gráfico. Para as pessoas que
utilizam o R e também têm familiaridade com o LaTeX, agora existe uma boa
solução para este problema, o Sweave. <br><br>
Abstract: When using R for statistical analyses, it is common to keep the
data analyses, the results of experiments, and graphs in separate files.
Fortunately, for R users who also use LaTeX, there is a tool for
organizing these files: Sweave! This paper presents a very short account
on how Sweave integrates R and LaTeX to keep both input and output of
statistical analyses in a single style file. <br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/schremmer.html">Configurable
Materials For Teaching Mathematics</a><br>
Alain Schremmer. This article describes a system that uses LaTeX to
generate math texts, homeworks, quizzes, and exams for developmental
mathematics courses. <br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/hofert.html">Scientific
Presentations with LaTeX</a><br>
Marius Hofert, Markus Kohm. In this article, we show how scientific
presentations can be created based on the KOMA-Script document class
scrartcl. The main advantage of the suggested approach is that the
presentation slides allow for easy copy-and-paste of content from other
LaTeX documents such as research papers or handouts. Using this approach,
presentation slides are quickly generated, without the author having to
learn how to use other LaTeX presentation packages. Additionally, in
contrast to the rather overused templates of the more common presentation
packages, the slides can be individually created and thus tailored to the
topic of the presentation. <br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/rogerio.html">Design and
Preparation of Effective Scientific Posters using LaTeX</a><br>
Paulo Rogério de Souza e Silva Filho, Rian Gabriel Santos Pinheiro.
Posters are important presentation tools in scientific conferences. LaTeX
offers several packages, e.g. a0poster and sciposter, for designing
several kinds of high quality posters. However, many of the posters we
are used to seeing are visually split into columns and conceptually
organized in sections, with amounts of text which are likely to disrupt
the viewing experience and understanding of the content. In this article
we present an efficient method for preparing visual scientific posters
using the PGF package and its syntax layer TikZ. <br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/blaga1.html">Variation and sign
tables with tableau</a><br>
Cristina Blaga, Paul Blaga. We describe here a package, tableau.sty,
created by N. Kisselhoff, very useful especially for calculus courses. It
aids in the construction of variation and sign tables for the study of
functions. The package provides a new environment based on PSTricks.
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<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/blaga2.html">Preparing exam and
homework material with probsoln</a><br>
Cristina Blaga, Paul Blaga. We describe here some of the possibilities
provided by the package probsoln, by Nicola Talbot. The aim of the
package is to help the user prepare different kinds of problem lists and
tests. <br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/jacques.html">Square, multiline
cells using tabular(x)</a><br>
Bastiaan Jacques. I describe a method for creating square cells,
containing multiple lines typeset in paragraph mode using the array
package. Both plain LaTeX tabular and tabularx packages are used.
<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/nelly.html">Ask Nelly</a><br>
Questions and answers on the use of LaTeX.<br><br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-2/distract.html">Distraction:
KenKen® Puzzle Challenges</a><br>
Several challenging problems with KenKen, LaTeX and TeX.<br><br>
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