8.23.1 Top new questions this week

8.23.1.1 How to draw parts of a line dotted with TikZ?
8.23.1.2 Add ports for flipflop in Circuitikz
8.23.1.3 Adding small arcs to a path in specific places
8.23.1.4 Expl3 - \cs_generate_variant:Nn / \exp_args:N... - Which method is preferable under which conditions?
8.23.1.5 How to use tikz and animate to animate in article document class?
8.23.1.6 expl3 - rules for toplevel-macro's argument specifications if toplevel-macro of function doesn't process arguments but calls internal macros that do
8.23.1.7 Collecting the content between two macros and pass it to the third
8.23.1.1 How to draw parts of a line dotted with TikZ?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=639726

I want to create a straight line between two nodes in a tikzpicture interrupted in the middle by a dotted portion. This should work whatever the orientation of the line. 
Here is an expected output: 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [tikz-arrows] [tikz-styles] [line]
 
asked by Guilian Deflandre https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=267790 Score of 15
answered by Ignasi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1952 Score of 12
8.23.1.2 Add ports for flipflop in Circuitikz

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=639893

I've got this so far: 
\begin{circuitikz} 
\node[flipflop D] (D) at (2,0) {}; 
\node[flipflop T] (T) at (6,0) {}; 
\node[flipflop JK] (JK) at (10,0) {}; 
\draw[SkyBlue] (D.pin 4) -| (3.8,0) |- (T.pin 1); 
\... 
[circuitikz]
 
asked by Aza Azdaema https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=260630 Score of 10
answered by Imran https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=219947 Score of 10
8.23.1.3 Adding small arcs to a path in specific places

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=639719

I have a path consisting of a series of straight lines and arcs, and now I would like to modify that path by replacing some segments of the line/the arc with another small arc whose centre is on the ... 
[tikz-pgf] [decorations] [tikz-path] [pgf-decorations] [tikz-decorations]
 
asked by Manuel Eberl https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61560 Score of 10
answered by Andrew Stacey https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=86 Score of 9
8.23.1.4 Expl3 - \cs_generate_variant:Nn / \exp_args:N... - Which method is preferable under which conditions?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=639897

If you need arguments preprocessed/expanded before TeX passes them to a macro, you can do two things in expl3: 
Use \cs_generate_variant:Nn for generating a variant of the macro where the arguments ... 
[macros] [expl3] [expansion] [best-practices]
 
asked by Ulrich Diez https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=118714 Score of 8
answered by Joseph Wright https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=73 Score of 7
8.23.1.5 How to use tikz and animate to animate in article document class?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=639382

I want to take an animated note of gradient descent via latex, and I know that in the beamer document class, this is possible. 
But I mainly want to make a note, I'm not happy with beamer's ... 
[tikz-pgf] [animate]
 
asked by aszswaz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=266776 Score of 7
answered by FHZ https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=140133 Score of 6
8.23.1.6 expl3 - rules for toplevel-macro's argument specifications if toplevel-macro of function doesn't process arguments but calls internal macros that do

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=639921

The file expl3.pdf - "The expl3 package and LaTeX3 programming" explains how expl3 functions should be named, according to the scheme 
\a^\237..modulea^\237(c)_a^\237..descriptiona^\237(c):a^\237..arg-speca^\237(c) 
or according to the ... 
[macros] [expl3] [best-practices] [naming]
 
asked by Ulrich Diez https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=118714 Score of 6
answered by Phelype Oleinik https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=134574 Score of 6
8.23.1.7 Collecting the content between two macros and pass it to the third

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=639662

Is it possible to define such two macros \mymodule_start_collecting: and \mymodule_stop_collecting: so that the content between them can be passed to a third (given) macro as argument? 
Motivation: I ... 
[macros] [expl3]
 
asked by Jinwen https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=194994 Score of 5
answered by Phelype Oleinik https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=134574 Score of 6