8.57.1 Top new questions this week

8.57.1.1 How Do I Reproduce this Three-Column Format Within Enumerate?
8.57.1.2 equation vertical alignment in tabular, baseline is too low
8.57.1.3 Strange mod operator behavior in metapost
8.57.1.4 How can I type a matrix like this?
8.57.1.5 How to remove the space between two macros only when they immediately follow another?
8.57.1.6 Is there a way, to make Latex interpret strings of spaces as strings of spaces?
8.57.1.7 How to decide whether a document actually uses pstricks?
8.57.1.1 How Do I Reproduce this Three-Column Format Within Enumerate?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=655734

To be clear, I don't demand that I use enumerate. I just want to reproduce the image. I tried variations of flalign and multicols but couldn't get it to work. 
[enumerate] [multicolumn]
 
asked by Gary https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=265136 Score of 9
answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5001 Score of 10
8.57.1.2 equation vertical alignment in tabular, baseline is too low

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I want to know how to precisely configure the vertical alignment of equations in tabular, for example, \arraystretch can increase the height but cannot make equations vertically centered, their ... 
[tables] [equations] [align] [vertical-alignment] [amsmath]
 
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answered by Zarko https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18189 Score of 6
8.57.1.3 Strange mod operator behavior in metapost

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I am currently facing a strange behavior of the metapost mod operator. 
Here is a simple piece of code: 
\startMPcode 
for x = 0 step .5 until 10: 
if (x mod 1) = 0.5: label.top(x, (x*cm, 0cm)) ;... 
[context] [metapost] [metafun]
 
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answered by Marijn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89417 Score of 6
8.57.1.4 How can I type a matrix like this?

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I am trying to type this matrix like this 
I tried 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{fouriernc} 
\begin{document} 
\[ 
\left( {\left| {\begin{array}{*{2}c} 
{a_2 ... 
[matrices] [arrays]
 
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answered by Teepeemm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=107497 Score of 12
8.57.1.5 How to remove the space between two macros only when they immediately follow another?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=656138

I use the following layout where the \sec{} headers are placed in the margin and \subsec{} headers and text paragraphs are position in the main column next to it. 
However, when a \subsec{} immediately ... 
[macros] [spacing] [vertical-spacing]
 
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answered by Heiko TheiA~\237en https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=255231 Score of 4
8.57.1.6 Is there a way, to make Latex interpret strings of spaces as strings of spaces?

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I need to have the spaces in my code correspond to the spaces in the final pdf, but latex automaticly replaces a string of spaces with one space. Is it possible to somehow change this behaviour? 
I ... 
[spacing]
 
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answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 13
8.57.1.7 How to decide whether a document actually uses pstricks?

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Let's say our system-wide default paper size is A4, and we have an old 15-pages-long document (prepared using llncs class) which we don't completely understand at this moment (neither content-wise nor ... 
[pstricks] [paper-size]
 
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answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 5