2.25.1 Top new questions this week

2.25.1.1 Empty document, only pagenumber, 500 pages needed

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/318084/empty-document-only-pagenumber-500-pages-needed

I need a document with 500 empty pages, only the pagenumbering in the foot of the page. 
This MWE shows 2 pages in the way I'd like to get all 500: 
\documentclass[pagenumber=footright, DIV=20,  ...
 

- asked by Keks Dose (22 votes), answered by Christian Hupfer (19 votes)

2.25.1.2 Inconsistent letterspacing (interword space) in pdflatex vs lualatex

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/317572/inconsistent-letterspacing-interword-space-in-pdflatex-vs-lualatex

In my documents I prefer text in small- and all-caps to be letter spaced. To that end I am using the letterspacing capabilities of the microtype package. Until now (with version 2.5 of microtype) I  ...
 

- asked by Thanasis 16votes

2.25.1.3 Sort Numbers After Their Values

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/317788/sort-numbers-after-their-values

Consider the numbers 
2^4, 4^2, 3^2, and 5^2 
Is it possible to make LaTeX calculate the values of these numbers and then arrange then automatically according to the values? 
That is, in this  ...
 

- asked by Svend TveskA~\246g (10 votes), answered by egreg (16 votes)

2.25.1.4 Declare option other than documentclass

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/317876/declare-option-other-than-documentclass

I I have a usrdefn.tex file in which I defined some commends/environments used a lot, also there are two version of theorem environments based on the language (english/chinese). Then I want to pass an  ...
 

- asked by user19832 (10 votes), answered by Rmano (10 votes)

2.25.1.5 Refer to the current page number, but not \thepage, but the real absolute

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/317427/refer-to-the-current-page-number-but-not-thepage-but-the-real-absolute

I want to get the real page number. If I use \thepage, I get problems, when I change the pagenumbering. For pagenumbering gobble, it disappears, if I change from arabic to roman, it resets the  ...
 

- asked by MaestroGlanz (10 votes), answered by Christian Hupfer (5 votes)

2.25.1.6 How is \catcode handled?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/317879/how-is-catcode-handled

\centerline is the same as \line{\hss#1\hss} 
Then why in the next example in the \line case the space is visible, 
and in \centerline case it is not? 
In both cases space has correct catcode 12. 
...
 

- asked by Igor Liferenko (9 votes), answered by egreg (3 votes)

2.25.1.7 Abbreviate author's name biblatex

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/317539/abbreviate-authors-name-biblatex

In academic presentations, it can be customary to not write one's full name in citing one of one's own papers. 
E.g., in a beamer presentation given by John Smith, a citation of a paper written by  ...
 

- asked by picop (9 votes), answered by moewe (5 votes)