[Tex/LaTex] How to write a mathematics problem book

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I'm a mathematics student and a newbie latex-user, and would start to collect my favourite problems in a problem book written in latex, dividing the content in two parts: the first, with the labeled problems, with the source of the problems, the origin et cetera; the second part, with the respective solutions.
Obviously I would do my best, with the two parts hyperlinked and an index, aiming to create a good document for others students.

I have yet no idea how to do it in a pretty and efficent way.

I'm looking for a template, a similar .tex document where to see how to do it without having to read a lot of manuals.
Any suggestion?
Thanks

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Have you tried the package probsoln by Nicola Talbot? I think it is exactly what you need. You can find it in CTAN. If I'm not wrong, it's distributed with MikTeX. There is, also, an article about it in the last issue of the PracTeX journal (if you don't know the journal, there is a link from the TUG page (http://www.tug.org)). I use frequently this package to prepare homework or tests for my students and, yes, also to prepare a problem book.

Best luck!

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Here is a draft for one (very rough, but just to illustrate that it is not that hard to develop a special template),

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and here is the code to play with:

\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\frenchspacing
\newfont{\HUGE}{cmr17 at 96pt}
\setlength{\textwidth}{3.0in}
\setlength{\textheight}{5.125in}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0in}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{-0.375in}
\setlength{\topmargin}{-0.375in}
\setlength{\headsep}{0.25in}
\setlength{\headheight}{0.125in}
\setlength{\footskip}{0.25in}
\setlength{\parindent}{0.5\parindent}
\ifpdf
  \pdfpageheight 7.5in 
  \pdfpagewidth 4.625in
\else
%\setlength{\paperheight}{7.5in}
%\setlength{\paperwidth}{4.625in}
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{1.9375in}
\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{1.9375in}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{1.75in}
\fi
\newcommand{\hstroke}{\rule[0.5ex]{5.0em}{0.2ex}}

\begin{document}

\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{center}
\setlength{\unitlength}{1.0em}%
\begin{picture}(45,16)(0,0)
\put(-0.625,0){\framebox(6.2,7.25){\HUGE \textcolor{purple}{A}}}
\put(5.875,5.625){\parbox[t]{15em}{\Huge \noindent LITTLE GIFT\linebreak
\raggedright FOR LITTLE\linebreak
FEET\linebreak
}}
\end{picture}
\hspace*{-0.6em}\rule{1.08\textwidth}{0.3ex}\\
{\small \sc by}\\
{\small YIANNIS LAZARIDES}\\
{\footnotesize Author of ``Myths of TeX''}\\
\vspace*{18.5 ex}
\rule{\textwidth}{0.3ex}\\
{\small
DOHA\phantom{ZZZZZ,}\hfill\raisebox{0.5ex}{$\bullet$}\hfill THE CAMEL\linebreak
QATAR\hfill\raisebox{0.5ex}{$\bullet$}\hfill PRESS
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\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\vspace*{18ex}
\begin{center}
{\em Copyright, $\mit 2011$}\\
{\sc By the Little Girl \& Company}\\
\hstroke\\
{\em All rights reserved}\\
\vspace*{18ex}
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{\sc for a little girl}\\
\vspace*{12ex}
Made in the wild.
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\newpage
\frontmatter
\thispagestyle{empty}
\vspace*{20ex}
\begin{center}
                           {\scriptsize FOR}\\
                {\large \bf Li, Mary and John}\\
\smallskip
                   {\footnotesize AND THE REST\\
                     OF THE WORLD'S\\
                    CHILDREN}
\end{center}
\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}

\newpage

\mainmatter


\chapter*{Stories of Greece}
\Large

Once upon a time there were two girls. One of them lived in Greece and the other on lived on the land of the Moon \ldots

\pagebreak

\includegraphics[width=3.5in]{children-0}

\ldots and there was a time when everyone was dressed in white\ldots


\hskip-1in\includegraphics[width=1.43\textwidth]{children-01}

\ldots and the gods had wings and there were no demons \ldots
\par

\pagebreak

\hskip-.5in\includegraphics[width=1.43\textwidth]{children-03}

\bigskip

\ldots and on the other side of the world in the Land of the Moon Wi Li was sleeping \ldots
\end{document}

You can view the pdf at crocodoc.

... and I think the books should be small to fit on small laps and to be easy for little fingers to flip the pages...

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