2.17.1 Top new questions this week

2.17.1.1 mysterious margins drawing TikZ arcs

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307695/mysterious-margins-drawing-tikz-arcs

I have found how to draw an arc with a specific node as center. So I drew circles made of 1 to 4 sectors. 
However, I get additional margin (right and bottom) when I draw with 3 sectors, even if codes  ...
 

- asked by ebo (20 votes), answered by Mark Wibrow (23 votes)

2.17.1.2 How to create nonbreaking arbitrary length snakes for full-width justification?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307795/how-to-create-nonbreaking-arbitrary-length-snakes-for-full-width-justification

This is a follow-up to the recent xkcd comic: 
Here is a simple version without justification: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage[text={1.2in,3in}]{geometry} 
\raggedright 
\begin{document} 
...
 

- asked by Joel (18 votes), answered by David Carlisle (14 votes)

2.17.1.3 Regular Polygon with tip on the bottom

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307011/regular-polygon-with-tip-on-the-bottom

I have a set of three regular polygons with six sides which I create using regular polygon from the shapes tikz package. However this always creates the polygon with the flat side on the bottom. How  ...
 

- asked by user299129 (17 votes), answered by Ignasi (12 votes)

2.17.1.4 Set math mode as default for each item in list

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307357/set-math-mode-as-default-for-each-item-in-list

\documentclass{article} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{enumerate} 
\item $x + y = z$ 
\item $e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0$ 
\end{enumerate} 
\end{document} 
I have a long list in which 95% of the entries are to be  ...
 

- asked by Synergist (16 votes), answered by Christian Hupfer (14 votes)

2.17.1.5 Terminal screenshot generator

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307129/terminal-screenshot-generator

I would like to document work in console while I also think that bitmap images are not the best way to do it. They do not scale well and after all what I am trying to document is text. Therefore I  ...
 

- asked by Mr. Tao (14 votes), answered by Christian Hupfer (17 votes)

2.17.1.6 How do diacritical marks impact centering and overshooting?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307538/how-do-diacritical-marks-impact-centering-and-overshooting

I am creating a table containing several foreign names with diacritical marks in them, and it seems to me that they ruin the vertical alignment, as they are too close to the top horizontal line. How  ...
 

- asked by Matsmath (11 votes), answered by Mico (9 votes)

2.17.1.7 Should \minipage restore the default definition of \@par?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307235/should-minipage-restore-the-default-definition-of-par

I came across the issue hinted at in the title while I was 
reflecting on 
this question 
('Irregular spacing around a user-defined environment') and 
its answer. 
The \@endparenv command is called by  ...
 

- asked by Gustavo Mezzetti 11votes