7.54.1 Top new questions this week

7.54.1.1 "The LaTeX Companion", 3rd Edition

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I have just realized that "The LaTeX Companion" is published in it's 3rd edition:https://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Companion-Techniques-Computing-Typesetting/dp/0134658949 
However, it is not ... 
[books]
 

asked by Svend TveskA~\246g https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=15874 18 votes

answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10109 50 votes

7.54.1.2 TikZ - Line join and line cap in a pattern

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is it possible to modify the line join and line cap when defining a pattern? 
I tried for example the commands \pgfsetroundjoin \pgfsetroundcap but it does not work. 
Here is what I get: 
\documentclass{... 
[tikz-pgf] [pattern]
 

asked by Bastien https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=209957 9 votes

answered by Bastien https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=209957 7 votes

7.54.1.3 How to make equation number not lag behind long equation?

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I have the following equation. It compiles like this: 
What is an aesthetic solution here to make this look better? 
\begin{equation} 
{\bar{t} \over c} = {0.3 \over 0.78}\left[{1 \over 0.78 \cos{\... 
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asked by stevederekson555 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245905 7 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 9 votes

7.54.1.4 How to change vertical distance between some nodes in tikzpicture (or set it to an arbitrary value)

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In the example below I would like to make the vertical distance between node/chapter 1 and node/chapter 3 equal to the distance now between node/chapter 3 and node/chapter 4. The position of node/... 
[tikz-pgf] [graphics]
 

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answered by Zarko https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18189 4 votes

7.54.1.5 How to customize the opening and closing brackets in `siunitx`?

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It seems siunitx options open-bracket and close-bracket no longer work. Is it possible to get such functionalities back? 
\documentclass{book} 
\usepackage{calc} 
% ========== Units ... 
[siunitx]
 

asked by Al-Motasem Aldaoudeyeh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=136098 6 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 6 votes

7.54.1.6 Using \boxed   in \newenvironment envname  here  and here

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There's a type of environment (shown below) which I'm using very frequently. I would like to define a new environment to begin it and end it with single commands. 
\begin{equation}\boxed{\boxed{ 
\begin{... 
[environments] [syntax] [box]
 

asked by Sisyphus https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=249895 6 votes

answered by campa https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=82917 4 votes

7.54.1.7 How to draw this cone?

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Let be a pyramid DABC, where D(0,0,0), A(0,0,3), B(3,0,0)  and C(0, 3,0). I am trying to draw this code 
I cannot draw the cone. I tried 
\documentclass[tikz,border=3mm]{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz-... 
[tikz-3dplot]
 

asked by John Paul Peter https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=250010 5 votes

answered by minhthien_2016 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=15080 5 votes