Modules/Pracjourn
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The PracTeX Journal is a TeX User Group sponsered online journal practical articles on "how to get things done" using TeX and friends. A typical issue of The PracTeX Journal may include:
- articles on projects or activities accomplished through the use of TeX
- short articles about problems that were resolved through the use of TeX or problems with TeX that were resolved
- a write-up on how to use a useful LaTeX package
- a column by a guest columnist
- questions answered by a guest expert
- a column for beginners
- relevant announcements
To write an article for The PracTeX Journal, the following sample can be used
\usemodule[pracjourn] % Replace the text inside <+ ... +> \setvariables [pracjourn] [ title=<+ Title of article +>, author=<+ name of author +>, address={<+ address of author +>}, revision={y=2006,m=11,d=14}, % Date in keyvalue format. copyright=<+ Copyright statement +>, ] \useURL[website][<+ url of author's website+>] %Optional \useURL[email][mailto:<+author's email id+>][][<+author's email id+>] %D If any of the above information is not provided, the corresponding entry %D will not apprear in the title. \startbuffer[abstract] <+ Write abstract here +> \stopbuffer \starttext \setups[title] <+ Write your article \unknown +> \stoptext
The documentation is in the comments in the module. To generate the pdf documentation you can run
texmfstart texexec --module kpse:s-ptj-01.tex --result=s-pracjourn