Letter Magic Squares

Calculates letter magic squares and generates a TeX file which can be used to build a pdf.

Example output

• LetterMagicSquares.pdf

Usage

Download the jar-file (LetterMagicSquares.jar) as well as the dictionary txt-file (EnglishNumberDictionary.txt). Place both files into the same directory and run

java -jar LetterMagicSquares.jar <min> <max> [ <dictionary> ]

where <min> and <max> need to be between 1 and 999 (the default dictionary contains only the words for these numbers) and the optional <dictionary> is the filename of the dictionary to be used.

Build the pdf

The command to build the pdf is as follows:

pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode LetterMagicSquares.tex

The example had been built with http://www.miktex.org/.

Required TeX packages to build the pdf

• geometry
• siunitx
• color

Development

The IDE for this project is IntelliJ IDEA (Community).