With the lpsmag bash script you can half automatically produce a Sudoku magazine using the LaTeX style file lpsudoku.sty and the createlpsudoku bash script.

The script needs an installed QQwing¹⁾ and a config file for defining the magazine's contents:

simple.smc

page p1 easy
page p2 easy
startpuzzles
typesetpage p1
typesetpage p2
startsolutions
typesetsolpage p1 p2 last

See Half automatic production with the lpsmag bash script for an explanation.

This config file will be sourced into the lpsmag bash script and contains calls of lpsmag functions. Make sure, that the config file has UNIX line endings (LF)²⁾.

page name difficulty

This function defines a page name with 6 puzzles and difficulty difficulty³⁾ At the same time, it also creates the solutions for the puzzles.

startpuzzles

This function resets the puzzle counter to 1 and does some setup for puzzles.

typesetpage name

This function typesets the predefined puzzle page name.

startsolutions

This function resets the puzzle counter to 1 and does some setup for solutions.

typesetsolpage name1 name2

This function typesets a solution page for the predefined pages name1 and name2. Please note that solution pages contain 12 puzzles. Therefore we should add 2 pages. You can add a third argument last⁴⁾ to indicate that this is the last page of the magazine, to avoid an unwanted \clearpage in the LaTeX source.

To add some 'design' you can change the preamble.tmp HERE document in the script. You can define some fancy headers, colors, …

After running lpsmag you will find a lpsmag.tex in your working directory. Just run pdflatex lpsmag.tex twice and you finally get lpsmag.pdf.

Have much fun solving the Sudokus!