8.55.1 Top new questions this week

8.55.1.1 How to make these four symbols in Latex?

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How to input these symbols in Latex? 
[symbols]
 

asked by ZZP https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=279068 Score of 7

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 19

8.55.1.2 Why are the zero stretch and shrink in the definition of \z@skip explicit?

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Why do both The TeXbook and latex.ltx define \z@skip=0pt plus0pt minus0pt?  Wouldn't \z@skip=0pt or perhaps \z@skip=0pt\relax be shorter and yield the same?   I always thought that the stretch and ... 
[glue]
 

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

8.55.1.3 Does a package exist for programmatically (incrementally) constructing a macro?

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When using LaTeX, I often find myself desiring a way to programmatically construct a macro using a series of instructions rather than in the usual "template" sense. 
By "programmatically&... 
[macros] [parsing]
 

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

8.55.1.4 Why is the lineskip different when setting the font size in a node?

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I want to change the font size of text in a node. Ideally finally I have multiple font sizes in a node. However when trying to change the font size in the node, I get unexpected different line ... 
[tikz-pgf] [fontsize]
 

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answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 6

8.55.1.5 Plot intersection point of two curves

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I am plotting the following filled area 
\documentclass{scrartcl} 
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usepackage{pgfplots} 
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.17} 
\usepgfplotslibrary{... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

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8.55.1.6 The 'backref' package and biblatex are incompatible

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Still new to LaTex and found this question appearing many times here (link, link, link), but still couldn't figure out a solution. It seems like the other SO questions had pagebackref or hyperref ... 
[biblatex] [hyperref] [citing] [back-referencing]
 

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8.55.1.7 How to produce PDF/A and PDF/X in 2022?

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As many of us know, there exists a package, called pdfx, originally codeveloped by HA~ n Tha'\272\[DownQuestion] ThA~ nh, which is supposed to be able to produce PDFs satisfying the PDF/X or PDF/A standards. However, it has ... 
[pdfx] [pdf-a]
 

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