2.12.1 Top new questions this week

2.12.1.1 Will I miss something if I start using ConTeXt instead of pdfLaTeX/XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX+ TikZ?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/301080/will-i-miss-something-if-i-start-using-context-instead-of-pdflatex-xelatex-luala

I am fairly used to TikZ/pdfLaTeX. Only recently I have started using ConTeXt. I like context because of consistency of style in macros. TikZ support is also available in ConTeXt. I stand to gain from  ...
 

- asked by Dilawar (20 votes), answered by Aditya (22 votes)

2.12.1.2 How to create dotted counter?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/301012/how-to-create-dotted-counter

How can I create a "dotted counter" like the one in the picture. 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\end{tikzpicture} 
\end{document}
 

- asked by Ilmionome456 (14 votes), answered by Aditya (18 votes)

2.12.1.3 Align TikZ Word Overlays

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/301432/align-tikz-word-overlays

I am using TikZ to produce 'highlights' over individual words as follows: 
\newcommand*\hl[1]{\tikz[overlay]\node[draw, fill={rgb:black,1;red,5}, 
inner sep=1mm, anchor=text, rectangle, rounded  ...
 

- asked by W P (13 votes), answered by Steven B. Segletes (13 votes)

2.12.1.4 Cyclic permutation of arguments / list of arguments

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/301130/cyclic-permutation-of-arguments-list-of-arguments

I work on a triangle ABC and I would like a macro to define IJK the centroid triangle ( I, J and K are the midpoints of the segments BC, AC and AB). 
The problem is not to get these points but "how" to  ...
 

- asked by Alain Matthes (12 votes), answered by Mark Wibrow (8 votes)

2.12.1.5 microtype expansion leads to error in pdfauthor

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/300893/microtype-expansion-leads-to-error-in-pdfauthor

The following document gives the error 
! Argument of \MT@res@a has an extra }. 
The source of the error is the accent command \"L (which doesn't make much sense, I only use it in the examples as  ...
 

- asked by Ulrike Fischer (12 votes), answered by diabonas (13 votes)

2.12.1.6 \typein and user-friendliness: how can I prevent errors from occurring if the user presses arrow keys or delete?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/301116/typein-and-user-friendliness-how-can-i-prevent-errors-from-occurring-if-the-us

I'm writing a document for my friend Sir Galahad to compile, and I'm using \typein to customize it: I'll give him the file bridge.tex, he will run pdflatex bridge.tex, and during compilation the  ...
 

- asked by Arun Debray (11 votes), answered by egreg (1 vote)

2.12.1.7 foreach with colors leads to "undefined control sequence"

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/301226/foreach-with-colors-leads-to-undefined-control-sequence

The following MWE works nicely when I remove the optional argument [\forcol] from the \addplotcommand or when I change it to red, for example. Though I would like the curves to have different colors  ...
 

- asked by riddleculous (11 votes), answered by Christian Hupfer (10 votes)