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I've put together a [[LaTeX]] package `problempack` to make it easier
to write up problem sets with solutions for the classes I TA.

problempack.sty
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The package takes care of a few details:

* Make it easy to compile one pdf with only the problems and another
  pdf with problems and solutions.
* Define nicely typeset environments for automatically or manually
  numbered problems.
* Save retyping a few of the parameters (course title, class title,
  etc), that show up in the note title and also need to go out to
  `pdftitle` and `pdfsubject`.
* Change the page layout to minimize margins (saves paper on
  printing).
* Set the spacing between problems (e.g. to tweak output to a single
  page, versions >= 0.2).
* Add section level entries to the table-of-contents and hyperref
  bookmarks (versions >= 0.3).

The basic idea is to make it easy to write up notes. Just install
`problempack.sty` in your `texmf` tree, and then use it like I do in
the example included in the package.  The example produces a simple
problem set ([[probs.pdf]]) and solution notes ([[sols.pdf]]).

For a real world example, look at my Phys 102 notes [with][] and
[without][] solutions ([source][]).  Other notes produced in this
fashion: [Phys201 winter 2009][w09], [Phys201 spring 2009][sp09], and
[Phys102 summer 2009][su09].

wtk_cmmds.sty
-------------

A related package that defines some useful physics macros (`\U`, `\E`,
`\dg`, `\vect`, `\ihat`, ...) is my `wtk_cmmds.sty`. This used to be a
part of `problempack.sty`, but the commands are less general, so I
split them out into their own package.

wtk_format.sty
--------------

The final package in the `problempack` repository is `wtk_format.sty`,
which adjusts the default LaTeX margins to pack more content into a
single page.

[with]: http://course.tremily.us/2008-spring-phys102/notes/rec1_sols.pdf
[without]: http://course.tremily.us/2008-spring-phys102/notes/rec1_probs.pdf
[source]: http://course.tremily.us/2008-spring-phys102/latex/notes/rec1/
[w09]: http://course.tremily.us/2009-winter-phys201/source/
[sp09]: http://http://course.tremily.us/2009-spring-phys201/source/
[su09]: http://http://course.tremily.us/2009-summer-phys102/source/

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