7.68.1 Top new questions this week

7.68.1.1 Halloweenmath contest (in memory of GuM)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=620788

Halloween makes me remember our dear friend GuM, who passed away this year in January. 
I was thinking of a way to celebrate him. 
I would like to ask you to show us something written with his probably ... 
[fun]
 

asked by CarLaTeX https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=101651 38 votes

answered by Sebastiano https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=117876 18 votes

7.68.1.2 Create fancy environment in Tikz

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=620875

Trying to prepare homeschool reading material for kids in lockdown and I would love to use an environment like the one below: 
I adapted codes from enter link description here 
Credit @SebGlav and made ... 
[tcolorbox] [tikz-styles]
 

asked by Kidegalize https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=244658 13 votes

answered by David Purton https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=87678 24 votes

7.68.1.3 What is the role of the different entities (TexLive, pdlatex, latexmk) in the LaTeX ecosystem?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=620596

I used to just compile my tex files using overleaf, which took care of everything under the hood. Now I'm trying to figure out what the different programs do. I know that e.g. Texlive and MikTex ... 
[pdftex] [texlive] [latexmk]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by user56834 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=147982 12 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 19 votes

7.68.1.4 Parse WolframAlpha's matrices into LaTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=620338

I sort of have the same issue as this question, but the reverse. 
It is often the case that I need to write out a matrix in LaTeX, one resulting from a computation of some sort. Of course, the ... 
[macros] [matrices] [wolfram-mathematica]
 

asked by Eevee Trainer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=176173 12 votes

answered by Steven B. Segletes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=25858 11 votes

7.68.1.5 How to force LaTeX to error when an \include file is missing/misspelled?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=620515

The only file which was meant to be compiled in my Main.tex was specified by the following line: 
\include{transformtaion} 
It was compiled without any error using the following command: 
pdflatex -... 
[pdftex] [errors] [external-files] [include] [compilation-error]
 

asked by Alish https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=211422 11 votes

answered by Phelype Oleinik https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=134574 15 votes

7.68.1.6 How to reproduce this CYK parse table in TikZ?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=620876

I would like to reproduce this triangular table of square nodes in TikZ, shown below. 
I do have a MWE, but it's really not much: 
\documentclass[tikz,border=2mm]{standalone} 
\usetikzlibrary{matrix, ... 
[tikz-pgf] [tikz-matrix]
 

asked by Jason1923 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=230326 8 votes

answered by ABC https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=255043 7 votes

7.68.1.7 Shading a heart

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=620785

I want to draw and fill the below heart with TikZ package. 
I use the shading option for the whole heart or two semi-heart curve. 
It seem the heart divided! 
Please help me correct the suitable shading ... 
[tikz-pgf] [shading] [tikz-fadings]
 

asked by Nam Tran Le https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=193916 8 votes

answered by hpekristiansen https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8650 12 votes