1.1.1 Top new questions this week

1.1.1.1 TiKZ: "hand-drawn" explosion

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/255916/tikz-hand-drawn-explosion

Is there an elegant way to simulate a handdrawn explosion as shown in the following image using tikz?
 

- asked by sergej (21 votes), answered by Gonzalo Medina (31 votes)

1.1.1.2 How to draw a cube completely filled with water, the other with water by half and the last leave it empty?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/256236/how-to-draw-a-cube-completely-filled-with-water-the-other-with-water-by-half-an

I want to draw 3 cubes, one filled with water, a full half full and another completely empty. I can draw them, but I can't do the impression of three forms: full, empty and half full. 
...
 

- asked by benedito (19 votes), answered by Gonzalo Medina (31 votes)

1.1.1.3 Why shouldn't I use getnonfreefonts to install additional fonts? Why shouldn't I use updmap when installing or removing fonts?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/255709/why-shouldnt-i-use-getnonfreefonts-to-install-additional-fonts-why-shouldnt-i

This question and answer is a response to a request from Joseph Wright. 
Why shouldn't I use getnonfreefonts to install additional fonts? 
Why shouldn't I use updmap when installing or removing fonts? 
...
 

- asked by cfr (18 votes), answered by cfr (22 votes)

1.1.1.4 Loop within another loop in LaTeX

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/256256/loop-within-another-loop-in-latex

I am trying to create a loop within another loop using some of the constructs in etoolbox but I am not sure how to create that. 
I want to get the output like in C. 
pseudo code 
for (i in the list) {  ...
 

- asked by user2714795 (13 votes), answered by wipet (17 votes)

1.1.1.5 Storing and re-using tikz coordinates for position and tangent vectors

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/256052/storing-and-re-using-tikz-coordinates-for-position-and-tangent-vectors

The following code 
\documentclass[border=5pt]{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usepackage{pgfplots} 
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.11} 
...
 

- asked by Abbas Jaffary (11 votes), answered by Paul Gaborit (8 votes)

1.1.1.6 Rule of thumb for synchronizing/updating Tex distributions

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/256398/rule-of-thumb-for-synchronizing-updating-tex-distributions

Some companies will not update their tex distribution regularly. 
What is a practical length of time to allow to pass before failing to resynchronize Tex Live or Miktex could reasonably become a  ...
 

- asked by kando (10 votes), answered by Alan Munn (10 votes)

1.1.1.7 Which is better practice: rendering figures on the fly, or importing them as images?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/255686/which-is-better-practice-rendering-figures-on-the-fly-or-importing-them-as-ima

I've come to a philosophical quandary with respect to my use of LaTeX for scientific writeups.  At first I tried to render all figures in LaTeX at compile-time, for example making a graph using  ...
 

- asked by nanogru (10 votes), answered by cfr (12 votes)