2.13.1 Top new questions this week

2.13.1.1 What is CTAN.org now?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/301882/what-is-ctan-org-now

Today I clicked in this link in TeX StackExchangehttp://ctan.org/pkg/svg and I got this message (screenshot below). 
In particular, what does it mean that "Latex Productions International has  ...
 

- asked by alfC (64 votes), answered by Arun Debray (62 votes)

2.13.1.2 "Star wars" text effect

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/301897/star-wars-text-effect

I would like to apply a transformation to some text so that it is slanted following a trapezoidal shape, such as the famous opening text of the Star Wars franchise: 
This seems tricky to do since it  ...
 

- asked by user102082 (29 votes), answered by Steven B. Segletes (12 votes)

2.13.1.3 Perpendicular lines from the same point to the same line are different

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/302409/perpendicular-lines-from-the-same-point-to-the-same-line-are-different

The perpendicular line from point b using $(a)!(b)!(c)$ is different from $(c)!(b)!(a)$: 
\documentclass[tikz,border=12pt]{standalone} 
\usetikzlibrary{calc} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
...
 

- asked by Ahmed Maher (16 votes), answered by Jake (14 votes)

2.13.1.4 Why positioning "above" is at a different height than "above right"?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/302149/why-positioning-above-is-at-a-different-height-than-above-right

Trying to answer to How to improve this picture? Or have a better idea?, I had a behavior I do not understand. 
Please consider the following MWE: 
\documentclass{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
...
 

- asked by Rmano (15 votes), answered by Jake (15 votes)

2.13.1.5 Defining a command to define an asterisk command

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/302308/defining-a-command-to-define-an-asterisk-command

I have the following command \defmeta that defines two other commands (one starred and one unstarred) 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{suffix} 
\newcommand{\genericcmd}[3]{#1 #3 #2 } 
...
 

- asked by Tohiko (12 votes), answered by egreg (10 votes)

2.13.1.6 In tikz, why does a pic with a tree get distorted upon positioning with e.g. `right=of`

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/302100/in-tikz-why-does-a-pic-with-a-tree-get-distorted-upon-positioning-with-e-g-ri

I'm trying to connect with edges tikz pics. I thought of using (sub)graphs like subgraph I_n and specifying the nodes with the V key, but I get an error: 
Undefined control sequence. 
...
 

- asked by Aayla Secura (11 votes), answered by cfr (7 votes)

2.13.1.7 How to write bold, italic and sans-serif at the same time?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/302597/how-to-write-bold-italic-and-sans-serif-at-the-same-time

My title is bold and sans-serif right now but two words in the title have to be italic in addition (scientific name of bacterium). Currently I'm using \selectfont to make the whole thing sans serif   ...
 

- asked by user102415 (10 votes), answered by ebo (23 votes)