7.56.1 Top new questions this week

7.56.1.1 Curly braces with subscript and superscript

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=615029

I'm looking for a way to write something like this: 
\lbrace A_i\rbrace _{i = 1}^{n} 
My goal is to put a subscript and a superscript near the right curly brace. How can I do it? The subscript and the ... 
[brackets] [subscripts] [superscripts]
 

asked by Gennaro Arguzzi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=106802 9 votes

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5001 12 votes

7.56.1.2 How to format the first letter of a word differently?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=615108

I'm looking for a command, which would take a text and print it with the first letter formatted differently: 
\first{Hello, world!} 
Should be turned into: 
\textbf{\large H}ello, world! 
Is there a ... 
[formatting] [packages]
 

asked by yegor256 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1449 7 votes

answered by Steven B. Segletes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=25858 8 votes

7.56.1.3 Square root of a function "misbehaves" near the x-axis

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I'm trying to plot height lines of a function of the form $H(x,y)=y^2+u(x)$, by taking multiple plots of $\pm\sqrt{c-u(x)}$. The problem is that for some values $c$ the domain is tricky and not easily ... 
[tikz-pgf] [plot] [sqrt]
 

asked by 35T41 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=209426 7 votes

answered by MS-SPO https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245790 11 votes

7.56.1.4 Cannot display "et al" in my citation

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For my dissertation I want to use the Harvard referencing style. 
So in my document I have a line as follows; 
The most important paper published in relation to NLP Transformers is \citep{aiayn} 
and ... 
[bibtex]
 

asked by arame3333 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=251347 6 votes

answered by Markus G. https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=118712 8 votes

7.56.1.5 Selectively disable a ligature in pdflatex + newtxtext

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I had a wonderfully working setup with LuaLaTeX, but my publisher demands I use PDFLaTeX and newtxtext. 
This, however, replaces ">>" in monospaced text with "A^>>" which looks ... 
[pdftex] [typewriter] [ligatures]
 

asked by h-2 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=188968 6 votes

answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2388 7 votes

7.56.1.6 Nested right cases

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I was reading a script for maths and came across this "picture" and was wondering how he typeset it in LaTeX, so I wanted to try myself. 
First I thought of cases, but that did not work as ... 
[align] [amsmath] [arrays] [cases]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Martin Dagleish https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=228238 6 votes

answered by Don Hosek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=202780 5 votes

7.56.1.7 Naming an equation in enumerate environment

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I'm a beginner to LaTeX so I'm sure this question has probably been asked. I would be grateful if someone could link it as I haven't been able to find it! 
Here is the structure of my desired output: 
(... 
[formatting] [align] [enumerate]
 

asked by Lauren S https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=251870 6 votes

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5001 6 votes