2.22.1 Top new questions this week

2.22.1.1 How to make a "krul" (unofficial Dutch symbol for OK)

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/313281/how-to-make-a-krul-unofficial-dutch-symbol-for-ok

Time and again I have been wanting to use a krul/krulletje in my documents. For instance in proofs consisting of multiple parts, as an alternative \qedsymbol, etc. But never could I find one. 
How  ...
 

- asked by gebruiker (28 votes), answered by Steven B. Segletes (27 votes)

2.22.1.2 Why can't caret and tilde be escaped with backslash alone?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/313236/why-cant-caret-and-tilde-be-escaped-with-backslash-alone

I can escape some special characters with a backslash. 
\documentclass{article} 
\begin{document} 
\# \$ \% \& \_ \{ \} 
\end{document} 
But why can't I escape ^ and ~ with a backslash alone? For  ...
 

- asked by Lone Learner (21 votes), answered by Alan Munn (30 votes)

2.22.1.3 Why is & special outside of tabular environments?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/313457/why-is-special-outside-of-tabular-environments

Consider the following m(non-)we: 
\documentclass{standalone} 
\begin{document} 
Foo & Bar 
\end{document} 
The build will fail with 
! Misplaced alignment tab character &. 
while it will  ...
 

- asked by user1129682 (15 votes), answered by Ulrike Fischer (14 votes)

2.22.1.4 Typeset old Spanish abbreviation: center ending over period

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/313538/typeset-old-spanish-abbreviation-center-ending-over-period

For a modern edition of music from the seventeenth century Spanish empire, I need to typeset certain antiquated abbreviations in the manuscript sources. In this convention, the middle part of the word  ...
 

- asked by Andrew Cashner (14 votes), answered by egreg (12 votes)

2.22.1.5 How to align horizontally two tabular environments

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/312906/how-to-align-horizontally-two-tabular-environments

I have this table (a table environment containing two tabular environments). I need the two tabulars to be placed side by side. 
But I need the second tabular to be align horizontally (same height that  ...
 

- asked by user3529544 (14 votes), answered by Mico (11 votes)

2.22.1.6 Any effort towards a rolling release of TeX Live?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/313353/any-effort-towards-a-rolling-release-of-tex-live

This is a follow on, in a way, from my question a couple of years ago about Why does TeX Live "require" yearly updates? One of the answers suggested that there was some discussion about  ...
 

- asked by StrongBad (13 votes), answered by David Carlisle (15 votes)

2.22.1.7 What do the commands inside the \LaTeX logo do?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/313527/what-do-the-commands-inside-the-latex-logo-do

I am trying to typeset a word in a similar fashion as the \LaTeX logo. I have found the code for the logo (given below in the MWE), but it uses many commands that I have never seen before, such as \z@  ...
 

- asked by Thoge (10 votes), answered by egreg (13 votes)