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Any suggestions for making a circle-the-word puzzle? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/latex

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Anyone have recommendations for how best to make a packet of circle-the-word puzzles? I'll be using fairly short (5 letters?) English words around various themes as part of an activity packet for elementary-school-aged children.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] jdnewmil 2 points 2 years ago

I would use a data manipulation language like R or Python with Quarto to generate the LaTeX programmatically. Then the document generation gets separated from the template design. Quarto is a system for generating LaTeX and HTML and docx files. R currently has more data rendering packages than Python, but either can probably do it.

(I somehow replied with the above to the wrong thread a few days ago. Hope this works.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

How much automation do you envision? Do you mean a "word search", the one with a grid of letters and you have to find words going horizontally or vertically etc?