2.23.1 Top new questions this week

2.23.1.1 How does --------------------------- work?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315607/how-does-work

When I type in 
Into Latex, it sometimes generates a continuous line like this: 
However, if I don't have "sufficient" number of "-", then sometimes the last "-" will  ...
 

- asked by Beached Whale (30 votes), answered by egreg (54 votes)

2.23.1.2 Tikz: fading a snake curve

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315284/tikz-fading-a-snake-curve

Trying to adapt this answer by percusse:http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/134297/3929 for a path that has a snake decoration. 
It sort of works, but I'd like the curve to uniform thickness. In the image  ...
 

- asked by daleif (12 votes), answered by cfr (5 votes)

2.23.1.3 texlive 2016 hyperref/cleverref incompatibility

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315462/texlive-2016-hyperref-cleverref-incompatibility

I almost always use ShareLaTeX for my LaTeX needs, but I recently began work on a relatively large document, and so I figured I would give a local TeX distribution a try to see if I could speed up the  ...
 

- asked by Jonathan Gleason (11 votes), answered by David Carlisle (8 votes)

2.23.1.4 Using tikzlibrary calligraphy for braces with a minipage

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315748/using-tikzlibrary-calligraphy-for-braces-with-a-minipage

I wanted to put a brace from the excellent TikZ library calligraphy on one side of a minipage. I can't get it to work: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{xcolor} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
...
 

- asked by sgmoye (10 votes), answered by Zarko (13 votes)

2.23.1.5 Is there a general rule when to write pgfplots keywords together?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315812/is-there-a-general-rule-when-to-write-pgfplots-keywords-together

When using tikz especially pgfplots I find it often difficult to remember if a keyword is written together or separaded. 
Examples for keywords written together are: 
xticklabels 
enlargelimits 
...
 

- asked by student 10votes

2.23.1.6 Precision in numeric calculations

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315441/precision-in-numeric-calculations

When using pgfmathsetmacro with very small of high exponents, it doesn't work. The example below exits by complaining a division by zero. Is there any way to increase the precision that this works or  ...
 

- asked by student (10 votes), answered by Heiko Oberdiek (10 votes)

2.23.1.7 Do all \if's need to be defined before a nested if?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315749/do-all-ifs-need-to-be-defined-before-a-nested-if

I have this MWE, which does not compile (Extra \else, Extra \fi) unless I load the showlabels package before the outer \if. (\ifSL@AMS is defined in showlabels.sty.) Is that a general requirement that  ...
 

- asked by bers (9 votes), answered by Gustavo Mezzetti (8 votes)