8.27.1 Top new questions this week

8.27.1.1 TikZ: Shading a stripped ball

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=641981

I want to have a stripped ball with 3-D shading. My attempt 
\documentclass{scrartcl} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\shade[shading=ball, ball color=green!60] (0,2) arc (... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by Bubaya https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27717 Score of 11

answered by hpekristiansen https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8650 Score of 21

8.27.1.2 How are fonts "stored" on LaTeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=642059

I used a humongous letter (the font was \mathscr) on a document and I was shocked by the quality of the letter despite the size of the letter. How are all these details stored? Why does the letter not ... 
[fonts] [fontsize]
 

asked by ChoripA~\[DownExclamation]n con pebrehttps://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=201762 Score of 10

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 36

8.27.1.3 Incidence Symbol for Geometry

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=641787

My professor invented a symbol for when a line and a point are geometrically incident. I added a picture and wanted to ask if someone knows how to write this in LaTex? 
It is a small line with a dot in ... 
[symbols]
 

asked by calculatormathematical https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=267805 Score of 10

answered by user187803 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=263192 Score of 10

8.27.1.4 \NewDocumentEnvironment eats the first non-letter token when used for verbatim environment

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=641880

I was messing around with creating verbatim environment saving its contents to a file like the one described in verbatim package documentation (end of section 2.2), but using latex3 features. It ... 
[environments] [verbatim] [latex3] [xparse]
 

asked by nim https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=269072 Score of 10

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 7

8.27.1.5 LaTeX3 not enforcing argument types for user-defined control sequences, why?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=641749

From a previous question, @egreg's states: 
The argument types N and n are the most common. The former means that the argument must be an unbraced single token, the latter means that the argument must ... 
[macros] [expl3] [latex3]
 

asked by user32882 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=134984 Score of 10

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 9

8.27.1.6 Nested lists with roman numerals

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=641644

I have seen here how roman numerals can be used in enumerate lists. How could I create nested lists with roman numerals, to get something like this? 
(i) ... 
(i.i) ... 
(i.ii) ... 
(ii) ... 
[lists] [enumerate]
 

asked by Invenietis https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=240784 Score of 7

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

8.27.1.7 Is there a way to add italic correction at the end of inline math?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=642201

I would like to add italic correction at the end of inline math, depending on the italic correction of the last math character. Here is a MWE showing why I would like to have that: 
%! TEX program = ... 
[math-mode] [fonts] [luatex] [kerning] [italic-correction]
 

asked by red_trumpet https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18357 Score of 6

answered by red_trumpet https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18357 Score of 4