8.52.1 Top new questions this week

8.52.1.1 Any elegant way to tell LaTeX that a line break after an abbreviation is bad but not impossible?

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LaTeX manuals are full of examples such as Fig.~5 or Thm.~10.  The tilde prohibits a line break after the abbreviation completely, to make sure that the reader doesn't see a period at the end of a ... 
[line-breaking] [cleveref] [acronyms] [penalty]
 

asked by GeekestGeek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=224332 Score of 13

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 10

8.52.1.2 L-shaped arrows for diagram (tikz/latex)

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If someone could tell me how to draw L-shaped arrows with text inside (as in the image attached)? I'm using node for normal arrows but I don't know how to make them L-shaped. 
My code so far: 
\... 
[tikz-pgf] [tikz-arrows] [arrows] [tikz-shape]
 

asked by Giane https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=277810 Score of 11

answered by CarLaTeX https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=101651 Score of 12

8.52.1.3 What's the difference between \AtBeginDocument and \AddToHook env/document/begin ?

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Here is an MWE: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{lipsum} 
\AtBeginDocument{\linespread{1}\fontsize{12bp}{23bp}\selectfont} 
% \AddToHook{env/document/begin}{\linespread{1}\fontsize{12bp}{23bp}\... 
[latex-base] [hooks]
 

asked by xdyy https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=246645 Score of 9

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 10

8.52.1.4 Use : colon character in weird argument a^\200\224 expl3

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Since \ExplSyntaxOn changes catcode of : it makes command with weird argument break when using the macro outside. 
\documentclass{article} 
\begin{document} 
\ExplSyntaxOn 
\cs_set:Npn \my_foo:w #1:#2\... 
[expl3] [latex3] [catcodes]
 

asked by antshar https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213149 Score of 7

answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2388 Score of 6

8.52.1.5 Is there a way to extract x or y value of the local max and min points?

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\documentclass{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\draw (-1,0) -- (5,0); 
\draw (0,-1) -- (0,3); 
\draw[red, thick, samples=100] plot[domain=0.35:4.2] 
(\... 
[tikz-pgf] [plot] [asymptote]
 

asked by Fotis K https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=165186 Score of 5

answered by Jasper Habicht https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=47927 Score of 8

8.52.1.6 Why do I have to redefine ampersand in tabular?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=653528

I want to print the numbers 0,1,...,n-1 in a tabular environment. My first attempt resulted in the error Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 19.. By "hiding" & (... 
[ampersand]
 

asked by LA~\[DownExclamation]szlA~\263 Batthahttps://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=278007 Score of 5

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 5

8.52.1.7 Plotting x^(x-1)

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I would like to graph the function x^(x-1) but I keep running into errors. Instead of a xy plane, it just graphs the x axis. Here is the general set up. 
\documentclass{standalone} 
\usepackage{... 
[tikz-pgf] [pgfplots] [plot]
 

asked by Angeline https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=277898 Score of 5

answered by gigiair https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=119245 Score of 3